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If you want to know whether a dolphin can recognise itself in a mirror, then turn to Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans (edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Robert W. Mitchell and Maria L. Boccia, Cambridge, £40/$59.95, ISBN 0 521 44108 0), papers from a conference that asked where the line should be drawn between animals and ourselves.

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