Introduction: Viewing Animals

Introduction to “Justice in Animals”

In the last decade, there has been an explosion of work investigating non-human species’ behavior as it relates to the human sense of fairness and justice. This work has provided a much-needed evolutionary perspective on humans, and highlighted ways in which humans’ behavior is both similar to and different from that of other species. In this concluding paper, we outline the major threads of th...

Introduction to “ Justice in Animals ” Sarah F . Brosnan

Although much is known about humans’ responses to inequity, little is known about similar responses in other species. The goal of these issues is to bring together researchers focusing on both humans and non-humans to provide a synthesis of our knowledge of non-human responses to inequity to date, and what these data tell us about the evolution of humans’ responses. In this Introduction, I prov...

Introduction: The Domestication of Plants and Animals: Ten Unanswered Questions

Some 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, humans started seeding and harvesting plants and maintaining animals in order to augment the food they obtained from wild-growing plants and hunting. These seemingly simple activities set in motion a long-term process that has led to the dominance of agriculture as we know it today. With the exception of a few remaining hunter–gatherer groups, agriculture has no...

Molecular medicine in genetically engineered animals: series introduction.

January 1 Gene modification via “plug and socket” gene targeting.................................. Jada Lewis, Baoli Yang, ......................................................................................................................... Pete Detloff, and Oliver Smithies January 15 Biological insights through genomics: mouse to man ...................................... Edward M. Rubin a...

Rethinking the ethics of research involving nonhuman animals: introduction.