According to Aristotle, human beings are logical animals and therefore able to discern the intelligible "logic" pervading living nature.
By similar logic, whatever animals have but choanoflagellates lack probably arose during animal evolution.
(The rustic logic of animal husbandry is based on a belief that all government agencies are bad, even if they were established to prevent you from getting ill, which you would have thought was good).
In the end, the logic of animal development involves a long cascade: tool-kit genes effectively switch other genes on or off, some of which then switch yet other genes on or off, and so it continues throughout the assembly of an adult.
And there are studies that any urban dweller could profit from, like "How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals".
"The birds pay no heed to what is 'natural' or 'unnatural,' " Mr. Jerolmack, author of such papers as "How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals," wrote in late April on the NYULocal blog.
The logic was that animals gained rights instead of more deserving gay men and women.
A common recommendation to reduce roadkill is hunting, with the logic that if animals are killed in the woods, they won't be killed on the roads.
These abilities, the argument goes, aren't specific to language, but are the same sorts of abilities to reason and generalize that allow us, uniquely, to learn math, music, and logic, unlike other animals.
Simplified or sparse logic representations in animals optimize the specificity, efficiency, and capacity of information processing.
