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Human are animals too in the end. We are just a bit more evolved than the other animals, emotion wise. So, I think emotions just evolve with the species. Maybe the mice are starting to get emotions for liking running in a wheel. The slug is just coincidence I would say.

Russell Stannard can explain it very nicely: http://fixyt.com/watch?v=IF54xqYhIGA

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>We are just a bit more evolved than the other animals, emotion wise

his point is that we don't have a scientific way to measure emotions.

In my opinion if we have emotions we should demonstrate that other animals don't not the opposite.

Why do you assume that we are more evolved? The only evidence we have is that we are better at building and using tools. "More evolved" can be defined in a lot of different ways (why are we more evolved than a wasp?) I think the idea that humans are more evolved it's just a anthropocentric assumptions.

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