Most probably such ideas were propagated in oral traditions and embedded in religious thinking ever since homo sapiens got their brain activated. Removing anthr

Most probably such ideas were propagated in oral traditions and embedded in religious thinking ever since homo sapiens got their brain activated. Removing anthropocentric exceptionalism has been a major driver of what we (now) call scientific thought but it is really just a "state of mind" that precedes more sophisticated, culture contingent, frameworks. Ofcourse there is a major difference between betting that "X is not different that all the Y's" and actually proving it :-), which is what makes this field of inquiry so fascinating.