Body plans and simple brains

Thurston Lacalli ()
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Thurston Lacalli: University of Victoria

Nature, 2003, vol. 424, issue 6946, 263-264

Abstract: Genes expressed in the vertebrate brain and spinal cord show up in the surface nerve net of a closely related group of invertebrates. Could this mean that brains started out on the body surface?

Date: 2003
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