Articles for tag: Avian Intelligence, Bird Brain Neuroscience, Cognitive Evolution, Convergent Evolution, Neurobiology

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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 ...

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What’s in Your Blood? A Biomarker That Sees Alzheimer’s Coming

Jan Otte

Alzheimer’s has been an insidious thief, insinuating itself into the brain years sometimes decades prior to memory loss and confusion becoming apparent. But what if a straightforward blood test could detect it more than 10 years before symptoms arise? A groundbreaking study suggests that a little-known protein, beta-synuclein, could be the early warning signal we’ve ...