Can Intelligence Gradually Evolve in a Shell?

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Pozzuoli 80078, Italy. Electronic address: emollo@icb.cnr.it.
² Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Pozzuoli 80078, Italy.
³ Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.

Comment

Ernesto Mollo et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Aug.

. 2019 Aug;34(8):689-690.

doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.014. Epub 2019 May 22.

¹ Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Pozzuoli 80078, Italy. Electronic address: emollo@icb.cnr.it.
² Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Pozzuoli 80078, Italy.
³ Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cephalopoda; Opisthobranchia; chemical defense; gradual evolution; intelligence; shell.

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Shell Loss in Cephalopods: Trigger for, or By-Product of, the Evolution of Intelligence? A Reply to Mollo et al.
Amodio P, Boeckle M, Schnell AK, Ostojic L, Fiorito G, Clayton NS. Amodio P, et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Aug;34(8):690-692. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.05.005. Epub 2019 Jun 4. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019. PMID: 31174876 No abstract available.

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