![]() ![]() In recent years, scientists have begun to recognize the many surprising abilities of animals. ![]() In example after example, he entertainingly demonstrates how researchers with those qualities have revealed surprising things about animal cognition and the porousness of the wall between human and animal cognition. First, for the nonscientist, the author provides some background on scientific thinking about animal behavior, putting paid to the bygone notion that animals are simply stimulus-response mechanisms or are solely driven by genetically endowed instincts. The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, 2013, etc.), the director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, tells us that it takes human ingenuity and respect to comprehend the level of intelligence of an animal. Intrigued by the search for intelligent life? No need for space travel-it’s happening right here on Earth, and the results are amazing.ĭe Waal (Psychology/Emory Univ. ![]()
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