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Last common ancestor was 600m years ago [0], “nearly twice as long as the step … to find the common ancestor of birds and mammals.”

0. https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Conscious...




At that scale having common ancestors effectively does not matter anymore.


It matters! We still have so much in common that's not due to convergent evolution, especially at the cellular level.




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