Where does our head come from?
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
A research group at the Sars Centre in Norway has shed new light on the evolutionary origin of the head. In a study published in the journal PLoS Biology they show that in a simple, brainless sea anemone, the same genes that control head development in higher animals regulate the development of the front end of the swimming larvae.