[torstenvl]

Now if we only engineered a retrovirus to uplift them into complex social structures and intelligence...

https://a.co/d/85Wwwhi

[lemmsjid]

I just finished reading Children of Time and was indeed imagining that he was looking at earlier research on this subject, because the way he describes the spiders' initial thinking skills quite echos the article. It was very fun to read from that perspective!

[xarope]

Bianca? Portia? (minor spoiler to the books)

[torstenvl]

The OP refers specifically to the Portia genus. ; )

[pugworthy]

Jumping spiders are very cute though, and can dance - so I anticipate them being very friendly.

[serf]

I wouldn't consider anything with that kind of dinner etiquette to be friendly if scaled up -- humans included.

[codeulike]

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is probably the best sci-fi I've read in the last 10 years. Its won the Arthur C Clarke award and recently the series (the other two books in the series are also great) won a Hugo

[wonderwonder]

loved the first 2 books, could not get through the 3rd