Naturalist intelligence

Naturalist intelligence

It is described as the power to perceive the relationships between various species or groups of objects and people, and recognize and establish whether there are distinctions and similarities between them.

Naturalists are often working to observe, identify and classify members of a group or species, and even to discover new species. Its field of view is more akin natural world, where they can recognize flora and fauna, and productively use their hunting skills, life science and nature conservation.

But it can also be applied in any field of science and culture, because the characteristics of this type of intelligence are restricted to the expected qualities in people who are dedicated to research and follow the proper steps of scientific method.

Actually we all adopt the naturalist intelligence to recognize plants, animals, people or elements of our natural environment. Interactions with the physical environment helps us develop awareness of the causes and effects and behaviors or phenomena that may exist in the future such as the observation of the climate changes that occur during the seasons and his influence among humans, animals and plants.

Gardner postulated that this kind of intelligence must have had its origin in the needs of early humans, and that their survival depended largely on the recognition to do useful and harmful species, observation of climate and its changes and to expand resources available for food.