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Does evolution help us understand why some species in the same genus are significantly smarter than others?
Are smart birds felling “pillars of human exceptionalism”?
Debunking another claim that an alleged “pillar” of human exceptionalism has “fallen”
Breaking: Common sense statements about human vs animal intelligence
Crow “species” turn out to be merely “in the process of speciation”
Crows Can Be as Smart as Apes
But they have quite different brains. The intelligence doesn’t seem to reside in the details of the mechanism Studying animals’ intelligence has taught us many things. But in some ways, it has deepened the mystery of intelligence. We might have thought that intelligence, in terms of individual learning ability, would gradually increase among animals, from invertebrates to vertebrates, from exothermic (cold-blooded) animals to endothermic (warm-blooded) animals, from reptiles to primates, culminating in man. In that case, intelligence would be associated with the increasingly complex brain structures that enable it. Research has demonstrated the opposite. “Crows Can Be as Smart as Apes” at Mind Matters See also: Even Lizards Can Be Smart If you catch them at the right time. But Read More ›