Questions tagged [intelligence]
While no precise and agreed upon definition exists, intelligence, in essence, refers to the ability to critically acquire, interpret and apply information.
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Do cells know or imagine how each part of the DNA influences body structure and function? How else would evolution happen in specific ways?
Consider how an octopus looks at a rock and it's entire body blends in to resemble the rock. Consider how insects evolved to resemble leaves or twigs. Even frogs, butterflies and other creatures ...
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Could an animal have a developed Broca's area but no Wernicke's area?
Broca's area's function is for speech production, specifically, the control of muscular movement for speech, and Wernicke's area's function is the comprehend language or communication, Communication ...
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Measures of animal intelligence
What is a good cross-species measure of intelligence?
I want to use this information to decide which animals to eat, so preferably it would have been measured for most commonly eaten animals.
I read ...
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Is there any running experiment to selectively breed non-human smart animals?
Is there any running experiment to selectively breed non-human smart animals?
I saw some scientists made overly tame and friendly foxes using fust selective breeding. Could it be possible to add the ...
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Intelligence without natural selection?
Natural selection is not the only driving force of evolution. There are other mechanisms such as genetic drift, mutations, gene flow, etc... To what extent can these different mechanisms (which don't ...
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Which animals do bait hunting?
By bait hunting I mean some predator which first collects or finds some bait (food of its prey) and then uses the bait to lure and catch its prey. This question is inspired by this video showing an ...
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What are the most intelligent plants?
For intelligence lets adapt the definition from here:
Perception of the surrounding environment
Adaptation to environmental conditions
Communication (in the case of plants, through chemical ...
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Do lobsters demonstrate any problem solving capability?
I was watching this video where a man takes a grocery store lobster and raises it in a salt tank, the lobster exhibits curious behavior that looks like intent. In the comments there was a claim that ...
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Why Account for Phylogeny when using Relative Brain Size as a Surragate for Intelligence
This paper tries to relate intelligence, life history, and urban fitness of birds. They use relative brain size of each species as a surrogate measure of intelligence. Although this may not be the ...
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Is there a difference between human neuron cells compared to those of other animals?
Thanks for looking.
Firstly, I am nowhere near biologist, just a student, so my apologies if this isn't a "good" question.
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So I was searching about intelligence, brains and ...
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Why do women have less synapses / neurons / brain mass than men despite having the same average IQ?
I don't mean to cause offence or suggest than men and women shouldn't be of the same intelligence — that's not something I'm here to dispute. What I want to understand is how this is possible given ...
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Does too much screen time really damage your brain? [closed]
So I was looking on the internet for articles to whether computers really damage your brain and I found that half of them say the do and the other half say the don't. Personally I don't think it does ...
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What factors have led to selection for intelligence in crows and rooks?
The Corvidae family could include some of the smartest species after primates. What could be the factors that differentiate them from other species of birds that have determined their potential for ...
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Do dogs and cats know the names of other people / pets in the house?
I have a dog named Penny and a cat named Milo. I always wonder if Milo knows Penny's name, and vice versa. So if I call Penny, does Milo know that I just called her? Similarly for humans, if someone ...
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Effect of myelination on inteligence in cephalopods
Cephalopods are known for their unique intelligence compared to other invertebrates.
The number of neurons of cephalopods is of the order $5*10^8$, similar to dogs. Humans have about $10^{11}$ ...
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