Ironically, copying and memorizing, often denigrated as stifling of creativity, may be a facilitator of it. A mathematician told me that the time learning the multiplication tables up to 35 x 35 ...

"Social learning has been studied in many species ... "Our results suggest smooth-coated otters adopt a 'copy when young' strategy. "The offspring in our study learned how to solve these puzzles ...

And they manage it in the same way that humans do: by copying and learning from each other. A team led by Erica van de Waal, a primate psychologist at the University of St Andrews, UK, created two ...

“We came upon homework copying through our research on learning in an online environment, rather than through moral concern,” said Pritchard. “But our results are so compelling that they ...

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This tender learning process from early childhood may seem like an innately human experience, but it’s actually incredibly similar to what engineers at the University of California, Berkeley ...