[Psychology]
Can someone help me understand as to what this sentence means?
Comparative psychologists study the evolution of behaviour by comparing the behavioural capacities of various species of animals.

What do they mean by behavioural capacities?

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[Psychology]
Can someone help me understand as to what this sentence means?
Comparative psychologists study the evolution of behaviour by comparing the behavioural capacities of various species of animals.

What do they mean by behavioural capacities?

anonymous · Answer

behavioural capacities : similarities and differences in behavior between species

anonymous · Answer

the study of human behaviour depend of their intellectual capacity by comparing it with  time ( the history n now )

anonymous · Answer

Its the word capacity that is throwing me off. The dictionary that I browserd through doesn't give an accurate definition within this context.

anonymous · Answer

leave humans out for a second. zoom out. for any society u need: communication, some social structure. short vs long duration of interactions. etc.
dolphins can communicate in a more complex way than plankton (and goldfish)
different apes - different societies. different capabilities for empathy etc