Scientific study highlights that octopuses share some brain genes with humans

A study by Italian scientists showed that the same types of jumping genes are active both in the human brain and in that of two species of cephalopod molluscs of the family Octopodidae: Octopus vulgaris, which is the common octopus; and the 'Octopus bimaculoides', also called Californian octopus.

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