There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.