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Which of the following conclusions regarding anthropocentrism are well supported by the essays in this section (Wilson, Zuk, Wohlleben, Godfrey-Smith)? Choose all that are correct; there may be more than one answer. Group of answer choices Wilson's essay suggests that our anthropocentric attitudes cause us to direct our research and resources only towards the study of animals like us, so we study vertebrates and ignore invertebrates. Each of the essays in this section demonstrate how difficult it is to attain complete value neutrality when conducting scientific research. Zuk argues that our anthropocentric attitudes may cause us to project human behaviors (such as gendered behavior) onto our observations of animal behavior. Godfrey-Smith's study of octopus intelligence demonstrates that our criteria for understanding intelligence may not be appropriate for studying animals with entirely different brains-- we cannot simply use criteria for evaluating mammal intelligence when dealing with invertebrates, for example. Wohlleben's essay challenges our anthropocentric notion that only animals possess intelligence, since he demonstrates the manner in which trees seem to behave as "social" creatures. Need Assignment Help?