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The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman - Book Summary
“Bird Brains, Tool Kits, and the Genius We Almost Missed”
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Title: The Genius of Birds
Author: Jennifer Ackerman
Category: Nature, Climate & Environment
Did you grow up thinking birds were basically simple, instinct-driven machines? Sam and Sophie did too, and Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds spends a whole book dismantling that assumption.
They walk through the reframe that anchors everything: bird brains have no wrinkled cortex, but they pack…
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