Tag: intelligence
Some Biologists Take “Plant Minds” Seriously
What would surely puzzle other observers is the considerable current effort — at the same time — to portray human intelligence as some sort of illusion.
Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News
Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event.
Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist.
Poland’s Intelligent Design Revolution
While Isaac Newton is universally regarded as the greatest physicist of all time, it is to the Pole Copernicus that we credit the rise of modern science.
The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex
After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then…