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What is intelligence and how do we test for it?
It was over 2000 years ago that Plato and Aristotle first suggested the idea of a ‘great chain of being’ (also known as ‘scala naturae’), a hierarchy of all of gods creations, with minerals and plants near the bottom, animals … Continue reading
Tool use and innovation
‘On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck … Continue reading
Posted in Animal behaviour, Biology, Evolution, Human evolution, Uncategorized, Zoology
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