All Annotations of Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better - New York Times[Preview]

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• to turn around the question.
• why have most animals remained dumb
• like-minded
• feeds on
• larvae
• fruit fly,
• Drosophila
• predators.
• unreceptiv
• metabolism
• E. coli
• it is spiked with bitter-tasting quinine
• quinine-free pineapple
• pitted
• meager
• yeast
• About half the smart flies survived; 80 percent of the ordinary flies did.
• Flies that have undergone selection for long life were up to 40 percent worse at learning than ordinary flies.
• f nectar
• pinpoint
• pay hidden costs for extreme learning.