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A group of international studies comparing brain development in birds and mammals suggests that vertebrate intelligence evolved independently, multiple times. Despite the differences in the brain structures in birds and mammals, the separate evolutionary paths converged on a similar form of functional intelligence. Original Papers: "Constrained roads to complex brains" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2609 Read more at Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/ #science #neuroscience #evolution --------- Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation. We focus on developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences. READ free math and science articles on the Quanta website: www.quantamagazine.org LEARN about the Simons Foundation: www.simonsfoundation.org FOLLOW our social channels: - Instagram: quantamag - Bluesky: @quantamagazine.bsky.social‬ - Facebook: quantanews - X: quantamagazine