Cognitive experiences during the early stages of life play an important role in shaping the future behavior in mammals but also in insects, in which precocious learning can directly modify behaviors later in life depending on both the timing and the rearing environment.
When honeybees are reared under social deprivation within the laboratory, precocious learning of a particular odor associated with reward during a relatively short time window (when bees are 5 8 days of adult age) results in a better olfactory retention at an older stage (when bees are 17 days old) than when the same experience occurs immediately after this period (when bees are 9 12 days old).
Extremely precocious, Wolf learned Greek, Latin, and French as a child.
Intellectually precocious, he learned to read Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French and English before he was fifteen.
But soon he took off in his own direction, precocious, prolific, and popular, learning from nature and painting furiously, as if anticipating his demise before the age of 30 from tuberculosis.
A precocious child, Margaret learned to read while still a toddler and began writing poetry at 15 when she entered the university.
A precocious child, he learned drawing, music, French, Latin and Arabic and fueled his imagination with books of Persian and Arabic literature.
The child's superpowers extended to an unusual political knowledge: he called Obama "POTUS," which seemed curiously precocious, until I learned that he was the two-year-old son of Josh Earnest, Obama's press secretary.
That sounds oddly precocious, until you learn that his mom is the longtime managing partner at the firm of IRA master Ed Slott.
Plucky and precocious, young Diana learns the ways of the Amazons muscular, humorless women in leather gladiator/cheerleader skirts, brass headbands, and eyebrows plucked into angles of gravitas, who spend their days practicing archery, swordplay, equestrian stunt-riding, and leggy, tanned-glute-revealing, anti-gravity Caipoera air-spins.
Later that night, after learning that his precocious younger daughter is in the hands of hoodlums, Pierce descends on a night club to zap the baddies and gain her release.
