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Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged

Our brain may be a hybrid of two ancient nervous systems that were packaged together hundreds of millions of years ago.

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Our brain may be a hybrid of two ancient nervous systems that were packaged together hundreds of millions of years ago. This is based on the finding that the front and back brain regions in people and several other species develop from two distinct cell types in embryos, instead of sharing the same developmental origin, as previously thought.

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