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Which Animal Mirrors the Curiosity of Human Evolution?

Suhail Ahmed

Ask a field biologist which animal feels eerily familiar when it pokes, tests, and outsmarts the world, and you’ll hear the same name again and again: the raven. For decades, great apes seemed the obvious mirrors for our evolutionary curiosity, but a wave of studies has pushed corvids – ravens and their crow cousins – ...