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How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence

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An international team published in iScience a study analyzing brain size across 79 cephalopod species, finding that habitat complexity—not sociality—correlates with larger brains in octopuses and cephalopods, proposing a new "asocial brain hypothesis" that challenges decades of prevailing social-brain theory for intelligence evolution.

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