On this same subject, I’m reading a book entitled The Soul of the Octopus by Sy
Montgomery. She’s an author naturalist. It’s an excellent book based on her
studies at the New England Aquarium and in nature.
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Interesting article on why octopus research may be very important.
An Octopus Could Be the Next Model Organism
Humans are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to octopuses. Our
lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes
octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago. Octopus brains
lack any of the major anatomical features of vertebrate brains, and most of
the animals’ neurons are distributed across their arms rather than in their
head.
Read in Scientific American: https://apple.news/AEMLTUQnaRl2S76dgqJ5ctw
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