Is It a Big Leap?

The development of the ne cortex was a big leap, or is it just a small step? If we ran the whole thing over again, from from the birth of life on earth, how likely would we develop the mechanism of the new qoke? Well, those are two separate questions. The they're not necessarily related. Maybe correlatedqaley, maybe not. And we don't relly have enough data to make a judgment about that. But mostly evolutionary history, everything had immediate survival advantages to so i'll tell you a story, which i like,. i may not be true, but the story goes as follows: organisms have been evolving since the beginning of life here on earth. I