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Beetle larvae think with brain ‘under construction’ – Science Daily
In human brains, hundreds of billions of nerve cells are interconnected in the most complicated way. This is no different for insects, although their brains ‘only’…
In the human brain, hundreds of billions of nerve cells are interconnected in the most complicated way, and only when these interconnections are correctly made, can the brain function properly. This is no different for insects, even though their brains consist of ‘only’ one hundred thousand to one million nerve cells. Nevertheless, fascinating and unexpectedly complicated behaviour can be observed in insects, for example when rearing offspring in the bee hive or when mosquitoes search for blood….
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