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Tag: intelligence
A clever new claim that we are less intelligent
Yet another claim, from smart people who want to instruct us about intelligence, that we (if not they) have probably become less intelligent than many of those who preceded us: “Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time,” Michael A. Woodley, […]
Ig Nobel winner Frans de Waal: The intelligence of animals
Ig Nobel Prize winner Frans de Waal published an essay about “The Brains of the Animal Kingdom“, in the Wall Street Journal. It begins: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task. Consider Ayumu, a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who, in a 2007 study, put human memory to […]
His “Mare Wives”: Higher class bestiality?
Between the yin of devoted love and the yang of bestiality lies the curious jumble of human behaviour reported in a monograph called A Case Study of Preferential Bestiality, published two years ago in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. Psychologists ML Lalumiere [pictured here], of the University of Lethbridge, Canada, and CM Earls, Montreal University, take us […]