Takehome: It’s still not clear just how intelligence develops in a life form. The relationship between massive genome rearrangement and very high intelligence in an invertebrate remains unclear but it is a promising research avenue.
Tag: octopus (intelligence)
At Mind Matters News: Science paper: Could octopuses be aliens from outer space?
There is no simple way of accounting for how smart the eight-armed invertebrate is. So, even if we dismiss an extraterrestrial origin, we still face a mystery.
At Mind Matters News: Did the octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?
It’s an interesting fact that intelligence in animals is not nearly as firmly fixed in a hierarchy of evolution as we used to believe. Octopuses are extreme outliers and we are only just beginning to get to know them.
At Mind Matters News: British government moves to protect octopuses from cruelty
Researchers are probing why some invertebrates are as smart as vertebrates. It seems that there is no straightforward evolutionary path to smartness.