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Your Book Review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?

Published: April 23, 2021, 7:05 a.m.

[This is the fourth of many finalists in the book review contest. It\u2019s not by me - it\u2019s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I\u2019ll be posting about two of these a week for several months. When you\u2019ve read all of them, I\u2019ll ask you to vote for your favorite, so remember which ones you liked. - SA]

Book Review - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are\xa0is ostensibly a book about a subfield of ethology - animal cognition. It turns out to actually be about a lot more things than that, as "animal cognition" and the history of its study touches on a lot of different scientific fields and the various approaches, methodologies, and ideologies they've had in the past. Before we jump into talking about how the book is useful an