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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by Frans de Waal
De Waal on evolutionary cognition: how badly designed tests underestimated animals and what better ones reveal. Humbling and funny.
Read it if…
you want animal intelligence without human bias.
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Skip it if…
you want a single species.
Try instead: Mama's Last Hug →
Three things you will actually use
- Test on the animal's terms.
- Cognition is a bush, not a ladder.
- Humility.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the magic well.
Our verdict
De Waal on cognition.
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