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Mini thread/rant about anthropocentrism in comparative communication: an increasing pet peeve of mine is our tendency to explore other species communication as it relates to ours through a human lens e.g. most studies are on vocal communication b/c of our speech bias 1/n
But we have to do this right, much easier to get that grant if we chuck 'evolution of language' in somewhere right? I don't think so. Studying species communication from the perspective of the species using it 1. allows us to explore awesome species specific capacities AND... 2/n
Critically, if we do it properly we'll understand what is meaningfully (rather than superficially) similar or different about human & other species. We can be anthropocentric about the question (if that's what rocks your world), but it's crucial that we're not in our methods 3/n
