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Fernando García-Moreno

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Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

in different areas of the pallium were present in the last common ancestor, not present in, for instance, in the case of amphibians. But they must be present in the last common ancestor because all amniote species, mammals, reptiles and birds evolved circuits from them.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

Definitely these were simpler circuits, much simpler than the ones that we can see today, but we think that the last common ancestor already had some of them in the Paleo. So what we see is that this circuit is very relevant, its features, because it has been selected several times in evolution.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

Definitely these were simpler circuits, much simpler than the ones that we can see today, but we think that the last common ancestor already had some of them in the Paleo. So what we see is that this circuit is very relevant, its features, because it has been selected several times in evolution.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

Definitely these were simpler circuits, much simpler than the ones that we can see today, but we think that the last common ancestor already had some of them in the Paleo. So what we see is that this circuit is very relevant, its features, because it has been selected several times in evolution.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

And we think that for people trying to research connectomics and also to make artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks, they should consider how this circuit acts because it is the most efficient and the optimal one selected by evolution. So we should not reinvent the wheel when nature is telling us this is the efficient circuit.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

And we think that for people trying to research connectomics and also to make artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks, they should consider how this circuit acts because it is the most efficient and the optimal one selected by evolution. So we should not reinvent the wheel when nature is telling us this is the efficient circuit.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

And we think that for people trying to research connectomics and also to make artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks, they should consider how this circuit acts because it is the most efficient and the optimal one selected by evolution. So we should not reinvent the wheel when nature is telling us this is the efficient circuit.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

Convergent evolution means that two features in two independent animals have evolved separately, but they have reached the same feature. It's the same characteristics. So the classic example is the wings of bats, butterflies, and birds. So when you research them, you can see that they develop in a completely different fashion.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

Convergent evolution means that two features in two independent animals have evolved separately, but they have reached the same feature. It's the same characteristics. So the classic example is the wings of bats, butterflies, and birds. So when you research them, you can see that they develop in a completely different fashion.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

Convergent evolution means that two features in two independent animals have evolved separately, but they have reached the same feature. It's the same characteristics. So the classic example is the wings of bats, butterflies, and birds. So when you research them, you can see that they develop in a completely different fashion.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So bats are making the wings with their fingers, whereas birds, they're doing it with the whole arm, for instance. And insects, they're doing it with some different primordia in the embryo. So we know that they are convergent because if we go to the common ancestor to these three animals, it was kind of a worm that didn't have any wing and didn't have even limbs.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So bats are making the wings with their fingers, whereas birds, they're doing it with the whole arm, for instance. And insects, they're doing it with some different primordia in the embryo. So we know that they are convergent because if we go to the common ancestor to these three animals, it was kind of a worm that didn't have any wing and didn't have even limbs.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So bats are making the wings with their fingers, whereas birds, they're doing it with the whole arm, for instance. And insects, they're doing it with some different primordia in the embryo. So we know that they are convergent because if we go to the common ancestor to these three animals, it was kind of a worm that didn't have any wing and didn't have even limbs.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So we know that the wings of these species, they have evolved separately. They are not inherited from a common ancestor. But then we know that they are fulfilling the same function and therefore they have a very similar structure. Because to fly, you need a wing which is in this fashion, with a particular surface, particular thickness or weight.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So we know that the wings of these species, they have evolved separately. They are not inherited from a common ancestor. But then we know that they are fulfilling the same function and therefore they have a very similar structure. Because to fly, you need a wing which is in this fashion, with a particular surface, particular thickness or weight.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So we know that the wings of these species, they have evolved separately. They are not inherited from a common ancestor. But then we know that they are fulfilling the same function and therefore they have a very similar structure. Because to fly, you need a wing which is in this fashion, with a particular surface, particular thickness or weight.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So function, because it was common, you need to fly, dictated the shape of wings in all these species. In the case of these circuits, we consider they evolved in a convergent manner, because although they follow different evolutionary routes, they ended up generating circuits which are very similar.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So function, because it was common, you need to fly, dictated the shape of wings in all these species. In the case of these circuits, we consider they evolved in a convergent manner, because although they follow different evolutionary routes, they ended up generating circuits which are very similar.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

So function, because it was common, you need to fly, dictated the shape of wings in all these species. In the case of these circuits, we consider they evolved in a convergent manner, because although they follow different evolutionary routes, they ended up generating circuits which are very similar.

Short Wave
How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

There is something quite relevant, which is intelligence, for instance, or the highest sensorial processing, have appeared several times in evolution. So we are not just an example of something very unique and special. Intelligence is not such unique and special. We think that complex brain and complex cognitive tasks