Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in public science discourse:
DL: "…the common clothes moth is what is called synanthropic, it actually depends entirely on man, so you don't find it in the wild"
MC: "yeah, so there must have been a point when they were feeding on something else, and they thought 'actually, here's a better life, clothes'…"
Marnie Chesterton
Marnie Chesterton, Radio producer / presenter was in conversation with Dr David Lees (Curator, Microlepidoptera, at the Natural History Museum) on an episode of 'BBC Inside Science'
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