Comment on The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)

agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Huh. I had no idea. Always fun to unlearn myths and learn new things to replace em with.

The evolutionary tree © illustrates the correct view that animals do not linearly increase in complexity but evolve from common ancestors. The corresponding view of brain evolution (d) illustrates that all vertebrates possess the same basic brain regions, here divided into the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain.

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