Word: anthropomorphismã
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...death. Humanities Center Director and Professor Homi K. Bhabha called the literary critic a “magnificent archaeologist of the soul of the scientist.” Beer said that in Darwin’s writings he used imaginative language to achieve a “reverse anthropomorphism?? that nurtured empathy between humans and other living beings. For example, he once observed a plant recoiling in “disgust” from a zinc plate. According to Beer, Darwin used this language because he believed that living creatures were difficult to understand, and acted on more...
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