Monday, September 20, 2010

Observatory - Clues to Human Thought Found in Worm’s Brain - NYTimes.com

Observatory - Clues to Human Thought Found in Worm’s Brain - NYTimes.com

Misleading title for an article that feels ... shoddy and overly excited (even for a brain nerd like me). I thought we learned from the Human Genome Project that it's not just about the genes, it's about the proteins (and the cell-cell connectivity and communication patterns, but we'll leave that for another day). Griping aside, it sounds like the marine ragworm will made a nice model organism to help chart out the evolution of the human brain.

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