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Fish May Feel Each Other’s Fear Through the Same Mechanism That Drives Human Empathy
You may have heard that ‘fish don’t feel pain.’ It’s a common, persistent myth that dates back to 17th-century French philosophy. Yet, regardless of René Descartes’s many other worthwhile ideas, the scientific consensus is that he was flat-out wrong on…
