Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in broadcast science journalism
"The environment decides how long that D.N.A. survives and is stable."
Dr David Duffy
Dr David Duffy (assistant professor of wildlife disease genomics, University of Florida), was interviewed on an episode of BBC Inside Science.
Read examples of anthropomorphism in science
Many examples of anthropomorphism are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.