Lessons from warblers and sticklebacks

January 11, 2012

Falkenblog has a post on ecological studies of animal intelligence.

The entire post is interesting, but I particularly like his last sentence:

[I]f you think that because you have a really high IQ, are really rich, or are a good speaker, you are therefore the smartest guy in any room, you are going to make a very big mistake someday.

The animal studies explain that conclusion.

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