.... "If the brain was so simple that we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we couldn't." -- Emerson M. Pugh

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Linear Evolution... NOT!

Interesting "Scientific American" article on the evolution of cognitive abilities in non-human animals here, with emphasis on diverse and complex independent lineages of cognitive evolution rather than simple linear development of intelligence.

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