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Textbook Rewrite: The Human Brain Has Two Distinct Origins, Scientists Discover
The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence.
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The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence. In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience today, a Stanford-led research team says the brains of humans and other animals are actually made up of two collaborating neural systems that start developing in parallel in an embryo's earliest moments.
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