«Humans are
profoundly social creatures and much of humans» success results from our ability to work together in complex communities — this would be hard to do if we were not able to rapidly empathize with each other and predict one another's thoughts, feelings and motivations,» authors write.
Research published in the June special issue of SAGE journal,
Social Science Information (SSI), delves deeper into our relationship with other
creatures, critically examining our own animal nature, and looking at how animals
profoundly influence our culture — perhaps more so than we had initially thought.