🦍🦎 🐸 Introduction to Comparative Psychology and Evolution! 🐶 😺 🕊️

🦍🦎 🐸 Introduction to Comparative Psychology and Evolution! 🐶 😺 🕊️

Understanding Comparative Psychology better via foundational concepts of evolution is truly helpful and can foster deeper learning about the causes of our own behavior as well as the abilities and behavior of other species. 🐂🐐🐈🐑🐖🐇🐁🐘🐟🐦🐬

We all have evolved by adapting to our environment in the best way for our survival. We then pass on those genes. Therefore, every living being is the best they can be for their natural environment! 😃🕊️🐸🦎🐕🦍🐈🐆🧡

Let’s open our minds to all the wonderful creatures with whom we share the earth. 😀🌍
Below I’ve shared a short yet excellent TedTalk by one of the world’s leading scientists on evolution as well as a peer-reviewed article on this topic. Enjoy! 📘

🎵 “Heart of the Nile”
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Filming: Edward Sanders

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Also, in the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, the authors, Kevin MacDonald & Michael A Woodley note in their chapter, The Evolution of Intelligence (2021):

“Definitions of intelligence in the scientific literature center around the idea that that intelligence refers to cognitive processes that allow humans and other animals to solve novel problems in their environments. Thus, Jerison (1973, pp. 16–17) notes that ‘Although experts differ with regard to the nature of human intelligence, a more or less common ground is that it is a dimension of cognitive behavior – the way one knows the world and the way one uses that knowledge when adapting to changing conditions.'”

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