{"id":757189,"date":"2019-05-30T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757189"},"modified":"2019-05-30T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:24:49","slug":"wasps-capable-of-behavior-that-resembles-logical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757189","title":{"rendered":"Wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The findings suggest that the capacity for complex behavior may be shaped by the social environment in which behaviors are beneficial, rather than being strictly limited by brain size.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SCIENCE DAILY:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a non-vertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp. For millennia, transitive inference was considered a hallmark of human deductive powers, a form of logical reasoning used to make inferences: If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater than C. But in recent decades, vertebrate animals including monkeys, birds and fish have demonstrated the ability to use transitive inference&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>More recently, some researchers have questioned whether TI requires higher-order reasoning or can be solved with simpler rules&#8230; Paper wasps have a nervous system roughly the same size &#8212; about one million neurons &#8212; as honeybees, but they exhibit a type complex social behavior not seen in honeybee colonies. University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts wondered if paper wasps&#8217; social skills could enable them to succeed where honeybees had failed&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;This study adds to a growing body of evidence that the miniature nervous systems of insects do not limit sophisticated behaviors,&#8221; said Tibbetts, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. &#8220;We&#8217;re not saying that wasps used logical deduction to solve this problem, but they seem to use known relationships to make inferences about unknown relationships,&#8221; Tibbetts said. &#8220;Our findings suggest that the capacity for complex behavior may be shaped by the social environment in which behaviors are beneficial, rather than being strictly limited by brain size&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190508093708.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12codFz6SOM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCIENCE DAILY: &#8216;A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a non-vertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp. 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