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520-Million-Year-Old Arthropod May Have Had the First Modern Brain
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists say that the recently discovered 520 million year old insect brain, the oldest brain ever discovered in an arthropod, is surprisingly complex for its age, and may be the earliest example on record of a modern brain structure. Hailed as a 'transformative discovery,' researchers said that the 3-inch-long fossilized extinct arthropod found in Yunnan Province, China, shows that insects evolved to have complex brains significantly earlier than previously thought. Researchers said that the fossilized brain, which looks very similar to brains of modern insects, may provide a missing link that offers new insight on the evolutionary history of arthropods, a group of invertebrates that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans."
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Mind you the funniest one I have come across was a page about "sharp calculators classed as weapons. Well I suppose a (literally) sharp calculator could be!
Frankly I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive.
You didnt miss much. Just some conclusions about the evolution of insects:
I could have got that watching the conservative party conference
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
If pen beats sword (and thereby knife and dagger), what would a pocket calculator beat?
Barack Obama at calculating the deficit?
Reading this from the couch on the TV with large fonts, I read the title as:
520-Million-Year-Old Arthropod May Have Had the First Modem!
and I thought, damn, news for nerds, finally!
My daughter thinks SHE has the first modern brain.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If you add up all the intelligence of all the Republicans on the House science committee it would still be less than one of those bugs.