Learning, Thinking, Feeling: People vs. Animals
Ask a group of people what the difference between animals and humans are, and they will probably come up with as many answers as there are individuals in the group. But my guess is that many of them will come up with some variation of this: that it’s our amazing brains–our ability to learn, to [...]
Tags: animal brains, emotion, intelligence, Robert Sapolsky, scientific studies, TED, theory of mind
Posted March 23, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies
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