{"id":1175,"date":"2014-09-15T01:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T01:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/similar-brain-across-bios"},"modified":"2019-07-26T07:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T07:46:59","slug":"similar-brain-across-bios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/09\/15\/similar-brain-across-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"Similar Brain Across Bios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s a great new study that shows <strong>how similar vertebrates\u2019 and insects\u2019 brains are<\/strong>. The scientists conduct <strong>molecular<\/strong>, <strong>developmental<\/strong>, <strong>genetic<\/strong>, and <strong>structural<\/strong>\/<strong>morphological<\/strong>, <strong>neurochemical<\/strong>, <strong>neurological<\/strong>, <em>and<\/em> <strong>higher-order function tests<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So maybe that\u2019s cool<sup>1<\/sup>, but no real surprise<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><sup>1<\/sup>. It\u2019s actually super amazing cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><sup>2<\/sup>. Well, not to someone with a reasonable education in biology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But I think this is a highly useful study. It\u2019s a fantastically convincing, harder to argue, description of how similar all living things are, and in particular, the natures (quality) and degrees (quantity) of that <u>similarity<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although they are two different issues, often evolution-deniers are people who prefer <em>not<\/em> to think about that <u>similarity<\/u>. The reason for that being that it makes it look <em>like <\/em>evolution. It\u2019s one of those double-thinks, like dinosaur bones, or ocean fossils on mountains, where religionists have to believe that their god put what must amount to <em>tricks<\/em> to make it look like the religion is false, perhaps as some sort of test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a great new study that shows how similar vertebrates\u2019 and insects\u2019 brains are. The scientists conduct molecular, developmental, genetic, and structural\/morphological, neurochemical, neurological, and higher-order function tests! So maybe that\u2019s cool1, but no real surprise2 1. It\u2019s actually super amazing cool. 2. Well, not to someone with a reasonable education in biology. 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