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Zoologist Amelia Lewis argues for increasing acknowledgment of cognition and goal-directedness, suggesting it affects evolution.
Zoologist Amelia Lewis argues for greater recognition of non-human animal sentience, cognition, and goal-directedness in evolutionary thought. Within the context of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES), she argues that individuals not only “respond to and manipulate their environment, but teleologically direct the course of their own evolution.”
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