New YorkComb jellies may be the oldest animal lineage.
Every textbook diagram of how nervous systems evolved would need redrawing.
The 700-million-year-old lineage runs its neurons on a different set of neurotransmitters than every other animal.
That chemistry is the evidence for a second, independent origin of thinking tissue.
How each outlet framed it
- Quanta Magazine leans favorable
- positions ctenophores as model organisms for understanding nervous system evolution and bioluminescence across diverse habitats
Sources: Quanta Magazine