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Shira Shmuely

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Open access Aug 2026

Simian Selves: From the Mirror Test to Habeas Corpus

Simple Summary What makes a being deserving of legal rights? Is it the ability to feel pain or the capacity to know oneself as an individual? This study traces how shifting scientific answers to these questions have shaped Western animal law over the last two hundred years, focusing on nonhuman primates. In the UK, the...

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