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<p>Nick -</p>
<p>I think I tried to help you arrange to scan/OCR "Wild Animals I
have Known" as much as a decade ago?</p>
<p>I'm guessing his work had a significant effect on you and perhaps
in leading you to your profession/career?<br>
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<p>I encountered Seton's "Wild Animals I have Known" in my
grade-school library sometime after reading a little bit of London
and Burroughs... I didn't know who Seton was at the time (in
relation to scouting) but simultaneous my "Cub Scout" troop was
practicing for a set of skits celebrating Rocky Mountain heroes
Kit Carson and Ben Lilly who was *proudly* depicted roughly
(Wikipedia quote) as follows: <br>
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<p>"<i><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family:
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!important; float: none;">He was no doubt, one of the most
destructive individuals contributing to the reduction of
North American<span> </span></span></i><i><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_predator"
title="Apex predator" style="text-decoration: none; color:
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white-space: normal;">apex predators</a></i><i><span
style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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extinction, an act contrary to modern standards of both
ethical hunting and<span> </span></span></i><i><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_(ethic)"
class="mw-redirect" title="Conservation (ethic)"
style="text-decoration: none; color:
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</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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!important; float: none;"><span>and Kit Carson: <a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson#Reputation"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson#Reputation</a>
who had a big hand in a great deal of atrocities against
Native Americans including "the long walk"... <br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span>I knew
there was something fundamentally at odds between the
heroifying of these two men and the kinds of stories I was
reading from the likes of Seton. I didn't recognize how much
anthropomorphic projection he was diong (having been raised on
Bre'r Rabbit and Wind in the Willows class anthropomorphism of
animals).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span>Later I
discovered Loren Eiseley who is also known for (over)
anthropomorphising. But yes, the myriad nature writers of
many stripes are an inspiration, even though my chosen
professional path was pretty complementary to all that. <br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span>Would
you say that Evolutionary Psychology is the "long form" of
behaviorism, focusing on the adaptation on the scale of many
generations vs the adaptation on the scale of a single
organism's interactions or a lifetime of interactions and
experiences?</span></span></p>
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