rare exceptions (chiefly social insects), mammals birds organisms devo — Carl Sagan, Dragons Eden: Speculations Evolution Human Intelligence

Carl Sagan Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devote substantial attention to the care of their young; an evolutionary development that, through the long period of plasticity which it permits, takes advantage of the large information-processing capability of the mammalian and primate brains. Love seems to be an invention of the mammals.

Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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