… other brain regions (accessory lobes) have shown to compensate these integrative processes in this taxon, which has not yet been demonstrated for Penaeidae. It’s thus still a low rating for lack of data, not for proof of failing this criterion.
This reminds me of two things:
I am forgetting the precise terms here, but for a while in the 1800s through most of the 1900s, researchers thought that birds weren’t intelligent because they were essentially comparing human and avian brains 1:1, but later, others found that while birds lacked that specific component (neocortex?), some other regions of their brain were functionally similar and that birds were indeed smart rather than instinct-driven biological machines.
I recall watching Dustin Crummett’s presentation on insect sentience a while back, and when talking about lack of evidence of sentience in certain insects, he emphasized that the besides black soldier fly and honeybees, most insects aren’t that well-studied.
This reminds me of two things:
I am forgetting the precise terms here, but for a while in the 1800s through most of the 1900s, researchers thought that birds weren’t intelligent because they were essentially comparing human and avian brains 1:1, but later, others found that while birds lacked that specific component (neocortex?), some other regions of their brain were functionally similar and that birds were indeed smart rather than instinct-driven biological machines.
I recall watching Dustin Crummett’s presentation on insect sentience a while back, and when talking about lack of evidence of sentience in certain insects, he emphasized that the besides black soldier fly and honeybees, most insects aren’t that well-studied.