Commentary on octopus – ancient, intelligent, and possessing five hundred million neurons

Why Not Eat Octopus – Silvia Killingsworth – “The cephalopod—a spelling-bee favorite, from the Greek kephalē, for “head,” and pous or pod, for “foot,” by way of modern Latin—has been around for hundreds of millions of years. Evolutionarily speaking, it is far more distant from humans than the animals we tend to have moral quandaries about consuming. In characterizing the octopus, the CUNY biology professor […]