Abstract
Beautiful Minds—For How Long?
Highlights
Over the past few years, the evidence has been building intensively that there is a story to be told about the relationship between cetaceans and primates
Evolutionary convergence is a complex multilayered phenomenon that must be treated with subtlety and sophistication
Convergence has never occurred on Earth because, at a fundamental level, all life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor
Summary
Over the past few years, the evidence has been building intensively that there is a story to be told about the relationship between cetaceans and primates. Bearzi M, Stanford CB (2008) Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. The fact that primate and cetacean brains did take distinctive cytoarchitectural routes to increases in size against the backdrop of these mechanistic similarities demonstrates that shared phylogeny (and genotypes) can still result in evolutionary phenotypes that are quite divergent.
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