Summary Of Jeremy Rifkin A Change Of Heart About Animals

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In “ A Change of Heart about Animals”, Jeremy Rifkin says that animals have some similarity initelligence to humans, and, thus, research continues to change the perspective of human beings towards animals. I agree, from he beginnig of time, humans and animals have seem to have a mutual relationship in both anatomy and physiology factors. Our fellow primates, for instance, have been identified to look like us and scientists have extened on this and found that our ancestors branched out from this species.

Secntific evidence show that we are not quite different from our fellow primates. For instance, Koko succeded to achieve a score of 70 on the IQ test; therefore, the gorilla is below the average scores of humans. Meaning, a relationship

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