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Nature 459, 506 (28 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/459506b; Published online 27 May 2009

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Cognition: theories of mind in animals and humans

Sara J Shettleworth1

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
    Email: shettle@psych.utoronto.ca

I believe that Johan Bolhuis and Clive Wynne, in their Essay 'Can evolution explain how minds work?' (Nature 458, 832–833; 2009), profoundly misrepresent the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of comparative cognition research as being rife with anthropomorphism and ignorance of evolutionary principles.

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