It’s Personhood Week here on Only Human. Today’s installment is about people and our fur babies. Monday’s post was about conception, Tuesday’s about the age of majority, and yesterday’s about identifying dead bodies. Tomorrow’s post, the last in the series, goes to neuroscientists who argue that “personhood” is a convenient, if illusory construction of the human brain.

I’d love to hear about how you guys define personhood, and why. Feel free to leave comments on these posts, or jump in to the #whatisaperson conversation on Twitter.

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I would be remiss, in a series about personhood, not to mention animal rights and the notion of non-human personhood. It’s incredibly interesting.*  And yet… it’s not an issue that