<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Scientists grow 'mini-brain on the move' that can contract muscle | Science | The Guardian (screenshot attached). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/18/scientists-grow-mini-brain-on-the-move-that-can-contract-muscle" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/18/scientists-grow-mini-brain-on-the-move-that-can-contract-muscle</a><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This link (<span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0350-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0350-2</a>) is to</span> the journal's abstract (screenshot showing citation attached). In part the abstract says, "<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:lora,palatino,times,"times new roman",serif;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.17px">Overall, these results reveal a remarkable self-organization of corticofugal and callosal tracts with a functional output, ..." </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif">To me this organic drive for self-organization validates the theory of evolution.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Thoughts? Worries? Will we know how much brain it takes to make consciousness in our lifetime? Didn't see that coming. </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Liz</span></div></div></div>