HES: Re: Is Trade Unique to Humans?

[Sam Bostaph]

I think this whole discussion would benefit with a complete absence of  "anthropomorphizing."  In THE DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE  IT MAKES, Mortimer Adler pointed out quite a few decades ago that the  human capacity for conceptual thought is not shared with other animals  and is the distinctive mark of a human being.  All of the outer  manifestations of animal behavior do not constitute a basis for using  words that designate human acts for other animal acts.

Sam Bostaph