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RE: Tree of Life: How Animals Became Animals?
Am no biologist or have any knowledge like you in the area, as I read your article diatoms(I think they are called plankton also) came to mind, they are single cell organisms but their ability to live in colonies and coordinate as one unit is astonishing, which begs the question is intelligence a result of an evolved brain and nervous system?
Of course there are many kinds of intelligence; ants for example express an intelligence that arguably makes them more successful creatures on earth than humans (They had farming, slavery, city-sized structures, millions of years before humans existed), but our unique 'higher intelligence' that allows us to reason and create and debate... quite unique to the brain system we own, even though the cells that make up the brain are simply acting as individual cells working together... complicated topic!