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baxtr · 10 months ago
If brains developed twice independently here on earth, then…
dieselgate · 10 months ago
The actual paper says it’s just a part of the brain opposed to the whole organ.
numba888 · 10 months ago
> Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor.

They didn't show those 'complex brain circuits' were not present in common ancestor. Am I missing something and this is well known? There is also nothing about fish. I suspect such complex organisms cannot exist without "excitatory and inhibitory neurons" the article talks about.

xkcd-sucks · 10 months ago
mammals are x86, birds are ARM
xeonmc · 10 months ago
And birds are at 2nm process nodes while mammals are 22nm
scarmig · 10 months ago
Scale is all you need.