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 Topic: Seems humans and Sea Squirts have something in common

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  • Seems humans and Sea Squirts have something in common
     OP - May 01, 2009, 07:42 PM
    Natalie Angier's The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science.

    From pg. 173


    . . . the tunicate, or sea squirt, is a mobile hunter in its larval stage and thus has a little brain to help it find prey. But on reaching maturity and attaching itself permanently to a safe niche from which it can filter-feed on whatever passes by, the sea squirt jettisons the brain it no longer requires. "Brains are great consumers of energy," writes Peter Atkins, a profssor of chemistry at Oxford University, "and it is a good idea to get rid of your brain when you discover you have no further need of it."


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  • Re: Seems humans and Sea Squirts have something in common
     Reply #1 - May 01, 2009, 08:19 PM
    Works for me. yes
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