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Who's smarter, humans or non-human animals?

And then there's this:

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Got your attention, right? That's the title of a paper by Penn, Holyoak, and Povinelli in April's Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Well, the full title is "Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds." Here's the abstract:
Those of us who work on non-human systems often grumble about the total disregard human geneticists (that's geneticists who study humans, not humans who are geneticists) have toward non-human research (that's research on non-humans, not non-humans doing research).
Basic Math in Monkeys and College Students:

She's right, it's not real. I think Mythbusters covered the slide one.

They duplicated the slide on MythBusters, but were only able to get about half the range. Adam and Jamie sure made it look like fun, though.

By richardrob (not verified) on 15 Jun 2011 #permalink