I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. I shower and do my hair and makeup in front of a vanity mirror, then get dressed with the help of my full-length mirror. I have three mirrors in my ...

Animals are amazing creatures with a wide array of traits, but one seemingly common trait is their inability to understand mirrors. Can animals even perceive themselves in mirrors? Check out this ...

What are nonhumans reflecting about when they see their own reflections? What do they know about themselves? "...in light of Darwin’s principle of evolutionary continuity, we urge abandonment of the ...

Self-awareness unfolds in three movements. First, we observe. Then, we reflect. Finally, we act. Observation is the spotlight: the capacity to notice what is happening in the moment. Reflection is the ...

Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought into the ...

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...