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Written May 16, 2008 in cultural evolution, new-caledonian-crows, non-human, tool-use
I’ve been rather swamped this week, off to the NZ Phylogenetics Meeting in a few hours, and have to finish writing my talk. So - just a quick round-up of interesting links to keep you all occupied!
Music reliably evokes common colors - a fascinating demo by cognitive daily.
The great blog, Shared Symbolic Storage has a [...]
Today in Nature, Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene:
Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200 and 100 thousand years (kyr) ago and recent evidence indicates symbolic behaviour may have appeared approx135–75 kyr ago. From 195–130 kyr ago, the world was [...]
Jonah Lehrer in The Boston Globe:
THE NEW CALEDONIAN crow is surprisingly smart about its food. Its favorite insects live in tiny crevices that are too narrow for its beak. So the crow takes a barbed leaf and, using its beak and claws, fashions a primitive hook. It then lowers the hook down into the [...]
Everyone thinks that chimpanzees and other primates are good candidates for finding complex cognitive capabilities in non-human animals. Unfortunately, they’re just not that smart, really. Sure, they can use sticks to fish termites out of holes, however, there’s another animal which can go a bit further.
The New Caledonian Crow (Corvus moneduloides) is known to manufacture [...]
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