Evolution May Be Drunk, But It’s Serious About Making Brains
by Amy Maxmen
May 21, 2014
3 minutes
Our brains, perched atop a network of nerve cells that ascend the length of our bodies, are thought to have arisen once in an animal hundreds of millions of years ago and then evolved over time. However, new findings suggest instead that brains and nervous systems originated multiple times from scratch.
The findings, published today in highlight an
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