For the past 50 years, international animal cognition research has focused on how tool use is related to animal intelligence. But new research casts doubt on long-held assumptions.
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Attempts to find brain structures responsible for supposed cognitive sex differences have not succeeded.
We have more neurons in our cortices than any other species, courtesy of an early technology – and along with them came our long, slow lives, with plenty of chances to gather around the dinner table.
A shift in climate, along with other environmental disruptions and the invasion of competitors and new predators all likely played an important role in reshaping ancient elephants' brains.
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Presidential Professor of Biology; Director, Cellular & Behavioral Neurobiology Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma
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Professor of Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
