D minus in social learning (Image: Cyril Ruoso/Minden Pictures/FLPA)
Editorial: “A question of intelligence“
ANYONE who has pets suspects that some animals are smarter than others. Now, in tests on apes, systematic differences in intelligence have been found, similar to those discerned by IQ tests in humans. And one chimp seems to be off-the-scale smart compared with her peers – perhaps the first known chimpanzee prodigy.
The findings could help explain the differences between animal and human intelligence.
Josep Call and Esther Herrmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, pulled together data from a decade…
