The Intellect of Porpoises

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 1873 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 8, pages 163-164 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS;

doi: 10.1038/008163b0

The Intellect of Porpoises

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IN Prof. Huxley's admirable criticism of “Mr. Darwin's Critics,”* the following passage occurs:—“The brain of a porpoise is quite wonderful for its mass, and for the development of the cerebral convolutions. And yet, since we have ceased to credit the story of Arion, it is hard to believe that porpoises are much troubled with intellect.”

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