What do octopus and human brains have in common?

A recent study by an international team coordinated by Remo Sanges ( International School for Advanced Studies ; Trieste, Italy) and Graziano Fiorito ( Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn ; Naples, Italy) found that their neural complexity could be from a molecular analogy to human brains - a similarity caused by convergent evolution, rather than genetic ancestry. 

Read the article

Media source
Main topic
Research (papers/grants)
Is it triggered by our press release/brief?
Yes
Copy and paste of our text?
Yes
Interview organised by us (with/without press release or note, comment, event, etc…)
No
Copy and paste of an agency news (wherever it comes from)?
No
Which agency?
EurekAlert
d7_username
Federica Gerini (fgerini)
d7_useremail
fgerini@sissa.it