How insects could be more conscious than we realize
Last summer, a cabbage white butterfly laid its eggs on an arugula I was growing. Before long, the plant was swarming with green caterpillars, well disguised against the green leaves. I h...
Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne.
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