living creatures who have what we call “self-recognition.” Self-recognition, for our purposes, is defined by the mirror test. The mirror test was and still is an experiment developed by psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. to determine whether an animal possesses the ability to recognize itself in a mirror (Gallup, 1970). It is used as an indicator of self-awareness in human and non-human animals, such as chimpanzees and dolphins. Typically a mirror is placed in the enclosure of the animal subject and reactions
Bonobos Respond to Distress in Others: Consolation across the Age Spectrum. PLoS ONE 8(1): e55206. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055206 Dennett, Daniel Clement. Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness. New York, NY: Basic, 1996. Print. Gallup, G. G. “Can Animals Empathize? Yes.” Scientific American 9.4 (1998): 67- 76. Web Goodall, Jane. Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Print. Hauser, Marc D. Wild Minds: What Animals Really
By that time, the courts had overturned the last remaining statute prohibiting contraception for married couples, in Connecticut. Eighteen other states were repealing or relaxing their century-old anti-abortion statutes; gallup reported that 64 percent of Americans supported abortion rights before Roe v. Wade; the women’s movement was spreading to every small town in the United States. Even Protestant evangelicals supported birth control in general and the legalization of
Impeachment is the ultiomate punishment for a president. It is a long and complicated rout to removing a public official from office. The Constitutional process Article II, section 4 specifies the procedures to be used to remove a public official from office(CNN/All Politics). The constitution states that and president found guilty for bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. There has been a long debate on what should be considered a high crime. Different people in the House share