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Intelligence Evolved Twice: How Birds and Mammals Took Separate Paths to Genius

Jan Otte

For millennia, people have seen intelligence as a singular evolutionary triumph, a pinnacle attained only by mammals, with primates (and finally, humans) at the top. But apparently nature had other ideas. Modern ground-breaking studies show that intelligence developed twice in two quite different spheres of life: mammals and birds, not once. Birds have long surprised ...