Do Animals have Animal Spirits?

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Alex Tabarrok:

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What insane ranting. For one, no biologist would even consider using the hilarious pseudo-science term "animal spirits".

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No, the trend is the exact opposite, actually. Naive biologists and anthropologists of the early twentieth century tended to think this and used it to justify their human-betterment theories, but they are complete hokum and debunked these days.