Constrained roads to complex brains

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Giacomo Gattoni et al. Science. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 2;387(6735):716-717.

doi: 10.1126/science.adv2609. Epub 2025 Feb 13.

Abstract

Neural development and brain circuit evolution converged in birds and mammals.

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