# When Did Animal Life First Become Capable of Love by Abigail Marsh > “When in the evolution of animal life did the capacity to experience love for another being first emerge?” > **— Abigail Marsh**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Abigail Marsh](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27675) — Abigail Marsh's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-069). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Nonhuman Intelligence|Nonhuman Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “When in the evolution of animal life did the capacity to experience love for another being first emerge?” — Abigail Marsh, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-abigail-marsh-did-animal-life-first-become ```