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‘without transformation / Men become wolves on any slight occasion’. This blog takes as its starting point, Jacob Kerr (2025) ‘The Wolf of Whindale’, London, Serpent’s Tail.

January 15, 2026

‘without transformation / Men become wolves on any slight occasion’. This blog takes as its starting point, Jacob Kerr (2025) The Wolf of Whindale, London. Is it conceivable that, asked to choose an animal you like, you would choose one you consider yourself to be like. There is no certain link or even line of … More ‘without transformation / Men become wolves on any slight occasion’. This blog takes as its starting point, Jacob Kerr (2025) ‘The Wolf of Whindale’, London, Serpent’s Tail.

Making and communicating decisions about our ‘favourite things’ are not exclusive to humans, who forget the truism, as stated by the University of Vienna cognitive biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch says: we really need to … recognize a very simple biological fact: It’s a truism, but people are animals, too.”

January 7, 2025

W. Tecumseh Fitch, a cognitive biologist (and, of course, an animal) from the University of Vienna, giving his keynote speech at the 2017 International Convention of Psychological Science in Vienna: ‘we really need to … recognize a very simple biological fact: It’s a truism, but people are animals, too.” Available at: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/humans-are-animals-too-a-whirlwind-tour-of-cognitive-biology Forget precedence and … More Making and communicating decisions about our ‘favourite things’ are not exclusive to humans, who forget the truism, as stated by the University of Vienna cognitive biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch says: we really need to … recognize a very simple biological fact: It’s a truism, but people are animals, too.”