Desrtopa comments on Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants - Less Wrong

67 Post author: Yvain 31 March 2011 12:27AM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 31 March 2011 03:10:02PM 7 points [-]

Dogs are only recently extracted from wolves, which are social animals whose behavior affects their status in the group. They would have experienced similar pressures even before their co-evolution with humans.

Observing guilt in non-social animals would probably falsify the hypothesis though.