Physicians tend to be human-centric in their approach. But veterinarians investigating perplexing problems often look to the medical histories of other species — including Homo sapiens.
. She returned to California for medical school at UC San Francisco and a residency and fellowship at UCLA.
Physicians tend to be human-centric in their approach. But veterinarians investigating perplexing problems often look to the medical histories of other species — includingNatterson-Horowitz feeds a giraffe at the Los Angeles Zoo. Giraffes have the highest known blood pressure in the animal kingdom, but this has no apparent effect on fetal or maternal health.
“Anthropocentrism is a blindfold,” she said of humans’ fixation on our own species. “If we can move beyond that, we could see connections that are meaningful and powerful.” Natterson-Horowitz visits the flamingo enclosure at the zoo. “There’s a pretty vast landscape of unexamined assumptions about human uniqueness,” she said.
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