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Although the shapes make no sounds and don’t have any facial expressions, the individuals couldn’t assist however interpret their motion in intentional phrases and assemble a story regarding their “interactions”. This is a particularly egregious example of our anthropomorphic biases, which lead us to be inclined to interpret the conduct of entities (human, non-human, and beyond) in human-like terms. Scientists studying animal cognition are well conscious of this problematic tendency, and so they attempt to counter it by stressing the significance of avoiding anthropomorphism. Daniel Povinelli and colleagues , for example, found that chimpanzees outperform youngsters in a gaze-following task, …