The primitive brains of platyhelminthes

Abstract The study of polyclad flatworms promises new insight into the organization and role of the brain during the evolution of Metazoa. Behavioral, physiological and anatomical studies are revealing that much, if not most, of the basic neuronal machinery seen in complex vertebrate central nervous systems, as well as higher invertebrates, is already present in extant flatworms.

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