What Is Intelligence?
By Katie L. Burke
Are humans really the most intelligent species?
December 4, 2013
From The Staff Biology Psychology Animal Behavior
Brian Hare, professor of evolutionary anthropology and member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, is interested in what dogs can do cognitively that humans and other primates cannot do. Are humans really the most intelligent species? Hare compares psychology within primates as well as between primates and nonprimates through the Hominoid Psychology Research Group and the citizen science project that he launched, Dognition. You can find out how your dog's breed compares in intelligence measures with other dog breeds, based on Hare's research, by visiting Dognition's new data visualizations.
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In this audio slideshow, Hare spoke to associate editor Katie L. Burke about what we can learn about our own species by studying dogs and bonobos.
Funding for Pizza Lunches, from which this multimedia project stemmed, is provided by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
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