Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is science communicator at JILA and editor-in-chief of their journal, Light & Matter. She is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats include quantum technology, artificial intelligence, diversity within the tech industries, animal intelligence, corvids and cephalopods. Her work has been featured in various publications, including Scientific American, New Scientist, Discover Magazine, Ars Technica, Nature Biotechnology, Astronomy Magazine, Leaps Magazine, Hakai Magazine, ChemistryWorld, Physics.org, Colorado Magazine, Inside Quantum Technology, The Debrief and more. She sits on the board of the Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains (SWARM) and teaches science writing to graduate students at JILA.
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Comparable neurons also exist in primates, which shared a common ancestor with crows more than 300 million years ago, suggesting that the ability to “count” evolved independently in the two lineages.
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