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Anyone who lives with animals or has observed them at any length will tell you that they can seem pretty darn smart. Recent studies confirm that they are, in diverse ways and to varying degrees. That's the point of the magazine article. So why our history of ignorance, why our dismissal of them as "just a dog" or "just a bird"? The article pins partial blame on the Bible -- on one sentence in particular -- and the absolute authority that people give to such biblical texts.
Citing the biblical book of Genesis, Jeffrey Kluger (the article's author) observes, "Human beings were granted 'dominion over the beasts of the field,' and [for many people] there the discussion can more or less stop." He's right. Truth is, though, the discussion stopped even before that point. Few people ask, for instance, "What does it mean to have dominion?"
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