brain aren't two different things, controlled by two completely different sets of genes. Many of the same chemicals that work in your heard and organs also work in your brain. So if you change a gene in order to change a chicken’s breast size, you're also going to change whatever that gene might have been doing in the chicken’s brain, assuming you're modifying a gene that is active i both places” (p.76). When breeders continually over-select for any trait in an animal, eventually neurological damage appears. Neurological damage almost always means emotional damage, or at least important emotional changes. Temple Grandin talks extensively about the different selection pressures put on purebred dogs and how the unintended consequences have actually left mutts as being better behaved and healthier. This is because she said they are most likely using constructive selection pressures on mutts. Badly behaved mutts are more likely to be culled out than a badly behaved purebred. People are going to put up with a lot more when they paid a lot for the animal. (p.82-83) ‘Temple Grandin talks about multiple differences in animal and human abilities and uses her gift of autism to tie them together and explain them. In one chapter called Animal Feelings she explains that mammals and birds have the same core feelings that people do. Their emotional biology is so close to ours that most of the research on the neurology of emotions — or affective neuroscience — is done with animals. Grandin (2005) says, “The main difference between animal ‘emotions and human emotions is that animals don’t have mixed emotions the way normal people do. Animals aren’t ambivalent; they don’t have love-hate relationships with each other or with people. Thats one of the reasons humans love animals so much; animals are loyal. If an animal oves you he loves you no matter what, He doesn’t care what you look like or how much money you make. This is another connection between autism and animals: autistic people have mostly