![]() There’s a great section on the Japanese pioneering the study of primates along their social networks. My favorite sections were learning about convergent evolution tidbits - such as birds and humans share over 50 genes for vocal expression! WTF! Or that squids and humans have very similar camera eyes due to tweaks in our shared Pa圆 gene. He tears apart out-dated behavioralists arguments that learning happens through incentives with a new approach from evolutionary cognition that says each species learns what it needs to survive in its environment - in what he calls BIOL (Bonding & Identification Based Learning). In this animal kingdom page turner, he questions the fundamental assumptions of what makes humans unique. ![]() ![]() BEST ANIMAL SCIENCE BOOK OF 2017 AWARD GOES TO: Are we Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? My favorite primatologist, Frans da Waal, has published his best book to date. ![]()
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