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I will also continue to post more about this until I am told to stop or it feels like someone has found a true fault such that my entire hypothesis breaks down. Hypothesis will be coming soon, I have thoughts faster than I could verbalize or type them, so it's going to be a bit chaotic. Thanks for listening and debating.

I would basically attribute any neurodivergent traits of the word we use neurodivergence for humans. So I imagine that maybe an ADHD bird exists that might have more energy consumption to power faster processing speeds in the brain. This bird would probably appear to be an almost erratic version of it's species. One of my speculations is that all of the finches from Charles Darwin may have been neurodivergent individuals. Who all obtained some significant way to obtain energy that was different from the typical finch they came from and then proliferated and the next generation was taught how to obtain energy this new way. Which would probably show progress as the neurotypical finches improved and interated upon the basic idea that the ADHD finch found. So essentially a form of evolution through the development of a habit rather than one that manifested through a change to the shape of the creature. Crows seem similar to me, so now I'm wondering if crows tool usage can be traced back to those finches or some other animal that got tool usage from a neurodivergent variant. Then I wonder if there are any other species that would seemingly have this "evolutionary habit" or spread, but in a similar fashion to this as opposed to say I grew a new toe and that allowed me to do something better.

So because it hasn't been defined as an applicable term by humanity it is impossible and therefore not worth ideation?

Okay, can of worms opened. I feel like if that was the case, we wouldn't be able to reference our animal brains affecting us in specific ways. It seems to me that the human brain hasn't evolved for a very long time, civilization has, but not humans. What has changed is the environment we are subjected to. A person from the 1100s would be stumped by a refrigerator, but any child that's raised now thinks a refrigerator is perfectly normal, they may not understand how it works, but they know it's how everyone keeps their food cold to avoid spoilage. If a child born in the 1100s has the same brain evoluationarily as a child born now, then the key difference is the environment that the child is raised in. I don't see why this idea couldn't extend back even further to pre-human organisms. I suspect the plasticity of the human brain is what allows any child to understand their surroundings no matter how different they were from their ancestors' perspective.

Hello All, First time here and I have no evidence for this thought, it's all ideation. What if neurodivergence is an evolutionary advantage? Let's not even talk about people, because that is so complex that I have little confidence I could address all of the possibilities that humans entail. But let's take non human species. What if neurodivergence is a mechanism to allow a species to thrive in specific environments but then explore others through the creation of a small subset of neurodivergent individuals. This probably often leads to failure or death, but in the event that a neurodivergent individual within a species comes across some better method of survival then those individuals will thrive, and lead to the potential creation of a new species or the same species in a different place that adapts to that place.