Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in a scientist's writing:
"Some small group of atoms coming together in the right sort of orderliness formed a seed on which successive layers of atoms laid themselves in the same sort of orderliness."
Alan Holden
Holden, A. (1965). The Nature of Solids. Columbia University Press.
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