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Ivo Jacobs

Cognitive zoologist, Lund University, Sweden

Cognitive zoologist investigating the origins of pyrocognition and the evolution of cognition in primates, corvids, palaeognaths, and alligators

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Monkeys huddled around a campfire with burning logs, smoke rising from the fire, creating a warm scene on a rocky ground.

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Evolution

Promethean beasts

Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition

Ivo Jacobs