How do the different brain structures of birds and mammals affect their cognition and behavior?
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Alex K. Chen, some liken me to an edgy AI. Rare-as-fuck.
All quotes and pictures taken from pages 108 to 115 in Evolving Brains
So what do we know about mammals?
And birds?
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So what do we know about mammals?
In the transition from cynodonts to mammals, the relative size of
the forebrain expanded. The neocortex, the sheetlike, six-layered
structure in the roof of the forebrain that is found in all mammals and only in mammals, was probably present in the earliest true mammals;
And birds?
Harvey Karten and his colleagues and Jack Pettigrew found that the wulst contains a single, highly topographic field map in owls. Pettigrew also observed that the wu...