Evolution of primate intelligence
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First, what do we mean by intelligence? this is a slippery issue, as any psychology student will tell you it is more than just complex behavior many complex behaviors among animals do not impress us as particularly intelligent for example, we don’t think that homing pigeons are particularly smart, in spite of their ability to find their way home from distant, unknown places presumably, intelligence involves flexible behavior, the ability to solve novel problems
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تاریخ انتشار 2010