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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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Is There a Relationship Between Learning and the Environment?

Insects are not terribly smart even as insects go. But there is nevertheless a difference between the ones who were just relying on their innate reflexes, find a leaf that's green and just plant your eggs there. And it turns out that that's correlated with how long a period of maturity they have. Even for butterflies, they're producing fewer young and giving them a longer chance to mature when they rely on learning.

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