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.

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