{"id":224769,"date":"2025-11-09T05:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-discover-creature-with-all-body-brain"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:10:37","slug":"scientists-discover-creature-with-all-body-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-discover-creature-with-all-body-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover creature with \u201call-body brain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-creature-with-all-body-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, who found that this nervous system has a genetic organization resembling that of the brain of vertebrates, like humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results show that animals without a conventional central nervous system can still develop a brainlike organization,\u201d said paper author and biologist Jack Ullrich-L\u00fcter of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThis fundamentally changes how we think about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/evolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evolution<\/a> of complex nervous systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, who found that this nervous system has a genetic organization resembling that of the brain of vertebrates, like humans. \u201cOur results show that animals without a conventional central nervous system can still develop a brainlike organization,\u201d said paper author and biologist Jack Ullrich-L\u00fcter of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224769","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}