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Just came across this nice study by Davidescu et al.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206163120
Larger bodies in the placozoan Trichoplax show less coordination across cells.
"We quantify the trade-off between increasing size and coordination in a multicellular animal with a decentralized anatomy that shows evidence of criticality and hypothesize as to the implications of this on the evolution hierarchical structures such as nervous systems in larger organisms."
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The simple #marine animal #Trichoplax utilizes an ancient, bacteria-derived lysozyme for acidic extracellular digestion, proving that essential animal immune mechanisms evolved from early digestive processes.
#EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #Immunology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ebio02112601.html