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Ape Genius reveals depth of animal intelligence - Telegraph - 1 views

  • By Paul Eccleston
  • 5:00PM BST 02 May 2008
  • Chimpanzees in Senegal make and sharpen spears with their teeth to go hunting. Like our own ancestors they have learned to use tools to kill their quarry more effectively.
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  • the skills to make a lethal weapon.
  • Ape Genius - which gives a fascinating insight into the depth of intelligence of animals who share 99 per cent of human genes
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  • Although they can be taught to recognise symbols and words they don't have the mental capacity to contribute to a 'conversation' - and they don't make small talk
  • And most important of all although they can imitate, they can't teach or build on the achievements others have made - unlike more successful humans.
  • But if apes have the power to reaso
  • n, learn skills, feel emotion and co-operate in a frenzied tree-top hunt for Colobus monkeys as chimpanzees do, why don't we have a planet of the apes?
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    There should be a sticky note on this page.
Marie-Lise Pagé

Deep Thoughts on What Makes Humans Special | LiveScience - 1 views

  • share characteristics with humans such as politically motivated aggression, empathy and culture, but humans take them to a level without parallel among animals
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
       
      Like we saw in the video Ape Genius
  • ey fall short of humans when considering secondary theory of mind
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  • uch capabilities allow humans to enjoy delicious stories with layers of intrigue and gossip,
  • humans can commonly extend empathy over time and space
  • exceptions as a mental illness that afflicts humans and animals alike.
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers ritualistically act out the same behavior again and again.
  • apolsky suggested two reasons not to worry
  • ne of the few differences between humans and chimps comes from the amount of cell division for brain cells
  • human behaviors stand out by reaching levels of complexity unseen in any other part of the animal world, according to a neurobiologist
  • What makes humans special comes in no small part from the sheer quantity of available brain power – at least 300,000 brain cells for each neuron in a fruit fly brain.
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    This website has a lot of information to help me in my project because it really helps me understand what makes the human mind unique. I also like that it compares to the Apes. It expalins the diffrences between the Apes and us. It also explains what makes us Human. However, it has a lot of scientific vocabulary that's hard to understand.
David Bono-Raftopoulos

Darwin's Theory - 0 views

  • the search for a mechanism of evolution. The first was Jean Lamarck. The second was one of the greatest figures in biology, Charles Darwin.
  • mechanism
  • mechanism
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  • Assume that there were salamanders living in some grasslands. Suppose, Lamarck argued, that these salamanders had a hard time walking because their short legs couldn't trample the tall grasses or reach the ground. Suppose that these salamanders began to slither on their bellies to move from place to place. Because they didn't use their legs, the leg muscles wasted away from disuse and the legs thus became small.
  • passed this acquired trait
  • legless salamanders evolved
  • no legs.
  • by inheriting the acquired characteristic of
  • Darwin's Background
  • o have extraordinary talents.
  • genius, did not at first appear
  • Darwin disliked school
  • d observing birds and collecting insects to study.
  • sent to medical school in Scotland
  • "intolerably dull
  • interested in attending natural history lectures.
  • university at Cambridge, England, in 1827.
  • Darwin be chosen for the position of naturalist on the ship the HMS Beagle.
  • to collect specimens, make observations, and keep careful records of anything he observed that he thought significant.
  • Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell,
  • In the Andes he observed fossil shells of marine organisms in rock beds at about 4,300 m.
  • One reason that Darwin was so eager to study life on land was that he suffered from terrible seasickness and couldn't wait to get off the Beagle.
  • thousands
  • trekked hundreds of miles through unmapped region.
  • catalog his specimens and write his notes.
  • praised by the scientific community.
  • experts for study.
  • bird specialist
  • Darwin's bird collections from the Galapagos Islands, located about 1,000 km west of South America.
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  • Other experts
  • believe that species change over time.
  • evidence f
  • In 1837 Darwin began his first notebook on evolution. For several years Darwin filled his notebooks with facts that could be used to support the theory of evolution.
  • fossils of similar relative ages are more closely related than those of widely different relative ages.
  • He ran his own breeding experiments and also did experiments on seed dispersal.
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    Very interesting document, it is a credible site, and has multiple pages of information about Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Helped me quite a bit for my TFAD assignment. 
Chrissy Le

Animal cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • artificial language comprehension in the bottlenosed dolphin using cognitive research methods
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      It's very interesting to think of animals being able to communicate between each other through various ways whether it be by speech, appearance, smell, etc.
  • Animal cognition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • study of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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  • comparative psychology,
  • animal intelligence
  • mostly concerns mammals, especially primates, cetaceans, and elephants, as well as dogs, cats, and rodents.
  • and fish,
  • began in the late 1950s
  • John Lilly
  • other animals do have minds and that humans should approach the study of their cognition accordingly.
  • bottlenosed dolphins
  • particularly monkeys
  • Spatial cognition
  • The ability to properly navigate and search through the environment is a critical task for many animals.
  • Research in 2007 shows that chimpanzees in the Fongoli savannah sharpen sticks to use as spears when hunting, considered the first evidence of systematic use of weapons in a species other than humans.
  • Language
  • The modeling of human language in animals is known as animal language research.
  • Consciousness
  • The sense in which animals can be said to have consciousness or a self-concept has been hotly debated; it is often referred to as the debate over animal minds.
  • It has been suggested that metacognition in some animals provides some evidence for cognitive self-awareness.[11] The great apes, dolphins, and rhesus monkeys have demonstrated the ability to monitor their own mental states and use an "I don't know" response to avoid answering difficult questions. These species might also be aware of the strength of their memories.
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    Indeed it is an interesting topic. Please don't bookmark wikipedia articles but maybe check out one of their references on the topic. You could also use some of the names of the anthropologists working in this field that we learned about. Susan Savage Rumbage was one who was featured in the documentary 'Ape Genius' and who worked with Kanzi.
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