Monkeys Who Think… and the neuroscientist who loves them. Portrait of Marc Hauser (Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think). “To its advocates, the rise of cognitive ethology reflects a regaining of

consciousness after a dark half century of behaviorist orthodoxy, which

held that all behavior, animal or human, was the result not of mental events

but of conditioned responses to external stimuli. Cognitive ethologists trace

their assumptions back to Charles Darwin, who insisted that animals and

humans exhibit no less evolutionary continuity in their minds than in their

kidneys, hearts, and toes. The field’s critics, however, suspect that talk of

animal thinking and intention may owe less to Darwin than to the

embarrassing and dubiously anecdotal mentalism of his protégé Georges

Romanes, a popular lecturer who saw logisticating dogs and conniving

felines under every Victorian armchair.” Lingua Franca