Tag: Jess Cockerill

An octopus holding a plastic bottle , generative ai

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News
Date
July 22, 2026

Categorized
Animal mind, Evolution

Tagged
Asocial brain hypothesis, Cephalopods, Ectotherms, Endotherms, Featured, Jess Cockerill, Lisa Hendry, Octopus (intelligence), Octopus brain, Social brain hypothesis}

Maybe Being a Loner Helps the Octopus Be Smart?

_{With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence} _{News
July 22, 2026

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Animal mind, Evolution}

The research mainly shows that there is more than one route to animal intelligence and shaking up Darwin’s tree can be productive.

A Butterfly’s “Second Head”: What It Says About Intelligence

_{Not what it says about intelligence in the butterfly but in nature itself…} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 21, 2025

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Evolution}

If there is no intelligent source of design in nature, the development over time of elaborate mimicry in insects is a conundrum.