Morning Biology

Tam brings the Snark about a “Fish Without a Brain”

“Awesome! Let’s vote for him!”

She has a point…but pawing over the linked articles (which most of which are written by non-scientists with little actual interest in science, don’t seem to point out what’s fucking new about this discovery. I mean the image put in most of the stories were similar to ones I saw in my Childhood Bio Book. Lancelets are nothing new.

Also in my humble opinion besides their bizarre missing-link nature they aren’t very interesting, and I’m actually more amused by the life cycle of the Tunicate. A creature born free-swimming and with a notochord (Primitive backbone), cerebral ganglion (primitive brain), but give it up, and digest those advanced apendages, to become a sedentary eating-and breeding spongy mass.

Needless to say, they’re Sea Democrats.