{"id":75259,"date":"2023-09-19T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-09-19\/una-extrana-criatura-animal-con-forma-de-tortita-muestra-el-origen-del-pensamiento.html"},"modified":"2023-09-19T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:10:15","slug":"una-extrana-criatura-animal-con-forma-de-tortita-muestra-el-origen-del-pensamiento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/una-extrana-criatura-animal-con-forma-de-tortita-muestra-el-origen-del-pensamiento\/","title":{"rendered":"A strange pancake-shaped animal creature shows the origin of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/TZCT77DDBBHIZATITH7BBNGDT4.jpg\" width=\"3061\" height=\"2902\" alt=\"Un placozoo observado al microscopio.\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>A multitude of religions from all over the planet agree on the same story of the creation of the human being, in which an all-powerful god creates women and men from nothing with a brain already well furnished. The reality is much less lyrical, as suggested by placozoans, animal creatures smaller than a millimeter that float in seawater like grains of sand. They go unnoticed, but they are extraordinary. Under the microscope, they are like tiny pancakes, without any organs, much less a brain. However, these strange animals are capable of coordinating to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/amoebalike-creatures-form-digestive-fronts-consume-their-prey\">attack in group<\/a> to their prey. The Spanish biologist&#039;s team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crg.eu\/ca\/programmes-groups\/sebe-pedros-lab\">Arnau Seb\u00e9 Pedros<\/a> reveals this Tuesday that in the cells of these unusual beings the origin of the neurons, responsible for human thought, can already be sensed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-09-19\/una-extrana-criatura-animal-con-forma-de-tortita-muestra-el-origen-del-pensamiento.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/ZB5Q2RF3WFG2RNCGRFIJTXWF2A.JPG\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" alt=\"El investigador argentino Sebasti\u00e1n Najle, coautor del trabajo, maneja los placozoos en el Centro de Regulaci\u00f3n Gen\u00f3mica, en Barcelona.\"><\/img><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/M2FK2SDFMNAITJ3L6ZPF77SFU4.jpeg\" width=\"1334\" height=\"889\" alt=\"Equipo de Arnau Seb\u00e9 Pedr\u00f3s (en el centro, sentado, con camisa gris), en el Centro de Regulaci\u00f3n Gen\u00f3mica, en Barcelona.\"><\/img><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placozoans separated from the group of human beings 800 million years ago and barely measure a millimeter, but they have something similar to neurons.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75464,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259\/revisions\/75464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}