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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by goatlover on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:42AM (#17393258)
The common ancestor between humans and cephalopods was around 560 mya, which isn've that closely related, and this would have been before the common ancestor developed a sophisticated nervous system.
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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by Reason077 on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:24AM (#17398777)
But we are related. We have the same origins and some of the same DNA. Intelligence may have arisen independently in Octopi compared to humans, but the conditions and building blocks that made it possible were shared. All life on Earth shares a common ancestry.
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