Waddling out of prehistory The British sinologist Joseph Needham, in his book Science and Civilization in China, points out that the worship of animals, besides being related to mistaken observations about the actual animals in nature, also reflects choices people made about identification.
以著作《中國之科學與文明》聞名的英國學者李約瑟曾指出，靈物崇拜除了與錯誤的生物觀察有關，選擇性的認同也是原因。