Interesting article on why octopus research may be very important.
An Octopus Could Be the Next Model Organism
Humans are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to octopuses. Our
lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes
octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago. Octopus brains lack
any of the major anatomical features of vertebrate brains, and most of the
animals’ neurons are distributed across their arms rather than in their head.
Read in Scientific American: https://apple.news/AEMLTUQnaRl2S76dgqJ5ctw
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