In fact music is one of the reasons we can sustain communities
better than other primates.
Not exact matches
«What we found is that weaning time — which acts as a measure of the prematurity of the infants — was a much
better predictor of
primate's intelligence
than any of
other measures we looked at, including brain size, which is commonly correlated with intelligence,» said Piantadosi.
It appears that relational learning is something that humans, even very young humans, are much
better at
than other primates.»
And in terms of some surgical procedures, implants, developing prosthetics, or
other therapies, nonhuman
primates can prove
better suited
than rodents.»
Primates can distinguish the colors of the rainbow
better than other mammals because their eyes contain three photopigment proteins.
There's more to these findings
than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and
other large
primates, the birds might serve as
better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are
better at this kind of inference
than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.