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>>12196522
Holy fuck no, did you even graduate highschool? Higher brain function is tied to specific brain structures.
>All the self-preserving instincts of fear, all reproductive instincts leading to romantic interest in partners and unconditional love of offspring all have the same evolutionary benefits for animals that they do for humans

Humans have very complex social stuctures when compared to literally any other animal besides maybe eusocial insects, we have language and civilization and benefit from emotions, pair bonding, etc. Those things take a lot of energy from the brain and if a species doesn't benefit from them (and most don't) then those things don't develop. They might have a response to external stimuli that indicates bodily injury, but to say they have higher brain function or emotion is retarded.

here's a gif of a mother crab eating her babies