Body plans and simple brains

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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?

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Lacalli, T. (2003, July 17). Body plans and simple brains. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/424263a

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