{"id":151200,"date":"2022-11-26T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/breakthrough-study-reveals-that-human-and-octopus-brains-have-common-features"},"modified":"2022-11-26T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:34:12","slug":"breakthrough-study-reveals-that-human-and-octopus-brains-have-common-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/breakthrough-study-reveals-that-human-and-octopus-brains-have-common-features","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough study reveals that human and octopus brains have common features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-study-reveals-that-human-and-octopus-brains-have-common-features2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s findings could play a crucial role in developing a complex brain.<\/p>\n<p>A common feature that connects humans and octopuses has only recently been revealed. It may sound a little bit quirky to you, but not to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Published very recently in Science Advances today, a team led by Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbr\u00fcck Center has now shown that their evolution is linked to a dramatic expansion of their microRNA repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>As said in the statement, the last known common ancestor of humans and cephalopods is a rudimentary wormlike animal with low intelligence and basic eyespots, which can be found if we travel far enough back in evolutionary history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nir Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>Published very recently in Science Advances today, a team led by Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbr\u00fcck Center has now shown that their evolution is linked to a dramatic expansion of their microRNA repertoire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/breakthrough-study-reveals-that-human-and-octopus-brains-have-common-features\">Continue reading \u201cBreakthrough study reveals that human and octopus brains have common features\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study\u2019s findings could play a crucial role in developing a complex brain. A common feature that connects humans and octopuses has only recently been revealed. It may sound a little bit quirky to you, but not to scientists. Published very recently in Science Advances today, a team led by Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}