Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are
by Frans de Waal
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Biology, Psychology, and Science.
What separates your mind from an animals Maybe you think its your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and futureall traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planets preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal co...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Biology, Psychology, and Science.
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Yann LeCun
“I'm reading that book. It's great! De Waal's point is that if you think that humanstyle language and symbol manipulation are special traits of human intelligence, you are a neocreationist. Thanks @TonyZador”
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