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Exceptionally cool.

I loved this last paragraph:

> The report leaves open the question of what brain signalling centres do in an essentially brainless worm. Lowe suggests that the centres help to design the network of nerves and the tissue that surrounds them. Meanwhile, Swalla speculates that they might underlie hidden sophistication. “I bet they do really complicated stuff that’s not easy for us to see because it occurs in mud, under the water,” she says. “I’d like to get a worm farm that resembles an ant farm so that I can film what they do when we’re not looking.”

Maybe the Exploratorium can set up an acorn worm farm and let the public decide if the worms are doing anything interesting.
Jennie 


On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Charlie Carlson wrote:
> http://www.nature.com/news/marine-worm-rewrites-theory-of-brain-evolution-1.10226
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> This is a very very cool story! 
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