Comments on: Book review – If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity

By: Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:18:17 +0000

[…] as well and reminds me of what Justin Gregg wrote about human morality (and its failings) in If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: “You cannot have that laundry list of positive cognitive skills without the negative […]

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By: Book review – Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:58:49 +0000

[…] time” (p. 219). I am going to invoke what I wrote elsewhere about Justin Gregg’s book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal. Rather than concluding that human-like language does not readily evolve, maybe we should conclude […]

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By: Book review – The Mind of a Bee | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Mind of a Bee | The Inquisitive Biologist — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:55:45 +0000

[…] pithy statement on this idea is not made in this book, but in conversation with Justin Gregg in If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: “In bigger brains we often don’t find more complexity, just an endless repetition of […]

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By: Book review – What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:51:54 +0000

[…] limitations of our definitions and measures of intelligence” (p. 261)? In the just-reviewed If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, Gregg also mentioned how some scientists do not think it is a useful test […]

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By: Book review – From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:55:47 +0000

[…] readily evolve, we should conclude that it readily does not evolve. Justin Gregg’s new book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal offers a suitably amusing riposte, arguing that non-human animals simply do not need it to be […]

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