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Rachel Blaser is a professor of neuroscience, cognition and behavior at the University of San Diego. Are Octopuses Too Smart to Be Farmed? Learn and share the most exciting discoveries, innovations ...

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Apramita Devi is a postdoctoral researcher in food science and technology at the University of California, Davis.