I think the term you're looking for is "anthropocentrism" [0], though I don't see how you can construe this article to take an anthropocentric point of view. I

I think the term you're looking for is "anthropocentrism" [0], though I don't see how you can construe this article to take an anthropocentric point of view. If anything, it's implicitly acknowledging that we're not as exceptional as we'd like to think. The title doesn't even indicate that the dolphins' brightness is changing, but rather that we're increasingly perceiving them as bright. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism