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Monday, 15 October 2012

Fossil said to be earliest to show complex brain

A remarkably well-preserved fossil of an extinct, worm-like animal reveals that anatomically complex brains evolved earlier than previously thought.  Found in rock formed from mud deposits during the Cambrian period 520 million years ago, the roughly 7cm fossil represents a primitive arthropod.


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