From the Bookshelf of Science and Inquiry…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
May 2017 - Hidden Life of Trees
By Betsy , co-mod · 25 posts · 174 views
By Betsy , co-mod · 25 posts · 174 views
last updated Nov 17, 2022 06:26AM
April 2017 - Reality is Not What It Seems
By Betsy , co-mod · 15 posts · 159 views
By Betsy , co-mod · 15 posts · 159 views
last updated Mar 18, 2021 04:12PM
showing 2 of 2 topics
view all »
Other topics mentioning this book
*
Who are we? Introduce Yourself. #2
By Betsy , co-mod · 684 posts · 1270 views
last updated Jan 02, 2023 05:28PM
*
What is your most recently read science book? What did you think of it? Part 3
By Betsy , co-mod · 535 posts · 851 views
By Betsy , co-mod · 535 posts · 851 views
last updated Nov 12, 2025 06:57PM
What Members Thought
Well, some people are smart enough to know how smart animals are--but some people are not. It depends on whether experimenters can put themselves into the frame of the animal they are studying. Testing an animal in the same way as one might test a human just doesn't cut it. And this is the main theme of the book; that researchers must test animals in accordance with their biology and move away from human-centric approaches.
Frans de Waal has written a fabulous book about researching the intellige ...more
Frans de Waal has written a fabulous book about researching the intellige ...more
Informative, engaging, and paradigm altering.
Jun 06, 2017
Holli
marked it as to-read
Nov 21, 2017
Ryan
marked it as to-read
