The great chain of being

Sean Nee
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Sean Nee: the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Nature, 2005, vol. 435, issue 7041, 429-429

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.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1038/435429a

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