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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. You may know that dog/human coevolution has been a popular topic in the past decade, and if so, this might help: Masson "takes E. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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Familiar Faces in Guyana

10,000 Birds

A couple bends along the trail and it seemed as if we were out of human contact by a thousand miles. Suddenly, I felt as if I had been transported to a hundred million years prior. Leon was eager to let one of the many forest trails swallow us, and we weren’t complaining.

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The Irony of The Girl Effect

Animal Person

But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. Human slavery, of course. The irony of the inclusion of the cow in The Girl Effect is that it swaps one form of slavery for another. Sex slavery.

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