Oh yes… white spots will be next. And their teeth are probably already smaller.
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Thx Cedric!

Good idea - I didn't think of that : )
I actually thought setting the record straight with Sam, and sending him the original artwork, might elicit an apology or something. No dice.

Yep, I'm one of those old-school academics who actually uses email to communicate. When I was young I even used a TYPEWRITER and sent LETTERS!
Those were the days... when academics were respectful of their colleagues, and of the truth. Sigh
When I was really young we rode dinosaurs to school...

Actually, the concept is that vertebrate brain anatomy is highly conserved across deep evolutionary time.

And that perhaps, just perhaps, consciousness is too. That's the point of the whole issue.

OK, I'm just a humble evolutionary biologist not a professional artist... I did my best....

Me: Tecumseh Fitch. Read the "About the cover" caption... its all open access!

That was my first thought - so I offered the job to my go-to scientific watercolor artist (who has done other art for my science). Sadly she was too busy to take it on, under deadline, so I did it myself. ChatGPT was used only to create the "Victorian engraving" styling - I didn't expect such ire.

My art is not "AI slop"
I am very proud of this artwork, based on my own watercolors and drawings. It IS scientifically accurate, based directly on the work of the great comparative neuroanatomist Glenn Northcutt (and inspired by Georg Striedter's wonderful book). ChatGPT did the styling only...

As Sam Mehr knows, this cover was the product of a lot of hard artistic work: I did all the artwork that underlies it and only used ChatGPT for the finishing touches

(he knows because I sent him an email clarifying it after he posted, to which he never responded...).

My artwork isn't "AI Slop"!