By Zazie Todd, PhD
The Book Club selection for Feb 2018 is The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human past times John Bradshaw. In the UK, the championship is The Animals Among Us: The New Science of Anthrozoology.
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From the within cover,
"In The Animals Among Us, anthrozoologist John Bradshaw argues that pet-keeping is nada less than an intrinsic utilization of human nature. Throughout history, empathy for animals has increased our mightiness to survive. As our human relationship amongst animals evolved, from the earliest domestication of wildlife thousands of years agone to the ubiquity of modern identify pets, this connector grew e'er stronger. Today, nosotros tin no to a greater extent than fix aside the attachment that many of us experience for animals than nosotros tin ignore our sweetness tooth.
Drawing on the latest interrogation inward biological scientific discipline too psychology, Bradshaw explains how an affinity for animals drove human development too how now, without animals approximately us, nosotros jeopardy losing an essential utilization of ourselves."
Will yous live reading the mass too? Leave your thoughts on it inward the comments below.
Zazie Todd, PhD, is the writer of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy. She is the founder of the pop spider web log , where she writes close everything from preparation methods to the human-canine relationship. She also writes a column for Psychology Today too has received the prestigious Captain Haggerty Award for Best Training Article inward 2017. Todd lives inward Maple Ridge, BC, amongst her husband, 1 dog, too ii cats.
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