The Brainless Survivors of the Animal Kingdom
A translucent bell drifting through seawater represents one of the oldest multicellular body plans still in use. Jellyfish manage this with no brain, no heart, and a sparse set of organs, yet their lineage has persisted while many more elaborate designs disappeared.Their survival rests on radical simplicity. Instead of a centralized brain, jellyfish use a diffuse nerve net, a spread of neurons tha...More
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