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The manner in which paleontologists have contributed to our understanding of brain evolution.
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It has been hypothesized that memory abilities might have converged from a common ancestor before the divergence into several phyla. The organisms that belong to same genus do not need to learn that bitter food is unpleasant in taste. Paleontologists have studied many pathways that suggest that memory has been converged from one ancestor.
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