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Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals

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32 points by ftrobro 10 months ago · 6 comments

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baxtr 10 months ago

If brains developed twice independently here on earth, then…

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

scarmig 10 months ago

Scale is all you need.

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