Examines the moral behavior observed in animals and argues that human beings are not the only species to live by the principles of cooperation, kindness, and em

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to under

Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of anima

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take fo

One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times