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Nature 435, 429 (26 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/435429a; Published online 25 May 2005
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Concept The great chain of being
Sean Nee1
- Sean Nee is at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Abstract
Our persistence in placing ourselves at the top of the Great Chain of Being suggests we have some deep psychological need to see ourselves as the culmination of creation.
For centuries the 'great chain of being' held a central place in Western thought. This view saw the Universe as ordered in a linear sequence starting from the inanimate world of rocks.
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