NOT A CHIMP

Are we humans simply remodelled apes? Chimps with a tweak? Is the difference between our genomes so minuscule it justifies the argument that our cognition and behaviour must also differ from chimps by barely a whisker? If “chimps are us” should we grant them human rights? Or is this one of the biggest fallacies in the study of evolution? NOT A CHIMP argues that these similarities have been grossly over-exaggerated - we should keep chimps at arm’s length. Are humans cognitively unique after all?

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/40/16389.abstract.html?etoc
A few days ago I posted about the New Zealand research group who have claimed that New Caledonian crows can infer the causal role of hidden agents. This is now an open access paper in PNAS and the link to it is above.

NOT A CHIMP

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents

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