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  • "Human laughter has robust roots in our animalian past," Panksepp said.

    Brenda Peterson: What We Learn from Animals: How to Play Brenda Peterson 2011

  • In other words, music may be based on the existence of the intrinsic emotional sounds we make the animalian prosodic elements of our utterances, and the rhythmic movements of our instinctual/emotional motor apparatus, that were evolutionarily designed to index whether certain states of being were likely to promote or hinder our well-being.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • In other words, music may be based on the existence of the intrinsic emotional sounds we make the animalian prosodic elements of our utterances, and the rhythmic movements of our instinctual/emotional motor apparatus, that were evolutionarily designed to index whether certain states of being were likely to promote or hinder our well-being.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • In other words, music may be based on the existence of the intrinsic emotional sounds we make the animalian prosodic elements of our utterances, and the rhythmic movements of our instinctual/emotional motor apparatus, that were evolutionarily designed to index whether certain states of being were likely to promote or hinder our well-being.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • In other words, music may be based on the existence of the intrinsic emotional sounds we make the animalian prosodic elements of our utterances, and the rhythmic movements of our instinctual/emotional motor apparatus, that were evolutionarily designed to index whether certain states of being were likely to promote or hinder our well-being.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • We stood before the Lord in the high-backed chair, and I saw that the wood figures of his regal throne were, of course, animalian, feline and diabolical.

    Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999

  • We do not promote other animalian behaviors (such as murder or rape) to protected status for good reason.

    MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory 2009

  • We do not promote other animalian behaviors (such as murder or rape) to protected status for good reason.

    MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory 2009

  • Welcome to our first installment of Ask Owl & Bear, where you mere mortals get to interact with this website's esteemed animalian contributors!

    owl and bear & owl 2008

  • There’s a lot of sleeping and animalian mischief going on in both of these titles.

    Review of the Day: The Zoo fusenumber8 2007

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