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Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains
- June 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the lamprey, a jawless, eel-like fish whose body plan has barely changed in roughly 360 million years.
Originally published at Phys.org