Brainy worms: Evolution of the cerebral cortex

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 12:35 in Biology & Nature

Our cerebral cortex, or pallium, is a big part of what makes us human: art, literature and science would not exist had this most fascinating part of our brain not emerged in some less intelligent ancestor in prehistoric times. But when did this occur and what were these ancestors?

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