{"id":90787,"date":"2025-05-20T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90787"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:40:37","slug":"a-series-of-studies-published-in-science-in-february-2025-provides-the-best-evidence-yet-that-birds-and-mammals-did-not-inherit-the-neural-pathways-that-generate-intelligence-from-a-common-ancestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90787","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A series of studies published in Science in February 2025 provides the best evidence yet that birds and mammals did not inherit the neural pathways that generate intelligence from a common ancestor, but rather evolved them independently.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Baxter&#8217;s SF novel &#8220;Evolution&#8221; does a very good job of portraying a velociraptor like dinosaur with hunter-gather tech and intelligence &#8212; doomed by inability to domesticate animals or cooperate. It was a small part of the novel but a fascinating bit of prescience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than neat layers, birds have \u201cunspecified balls of neurons without landmarks or distinctions&#8221; but the neural networks resemble ours. And resemble LLMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals\/ Stephen Baxter&#8217;s SF novel &#8220;Evolution&#8221; does a very good job of portraying a velociraptor like dinosaur with hunter-gather tech and intelligence &#8212; doomed by inability to domesticate animals or cooperate. It was a small part of the novel but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90787\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90788,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90787\/revisions\/90788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}