It remains a standing problem how and why the first nervous systems evolved. Molecular
and genomic information is now rapidly accumulating but the macroscopic organization and …

Neural action potentials (APs) are difficult to interpret as signal encoders and/or
computational primitives. Their relationships with stimuli and behaviors are obscured by the …

A principal problem of evolutionary graph theory is to find the probability that an initial
mutant population will fix on a graph, ie that the mutants will eventually replace the …

Internal coordination models hold that early nervous systems evolved in the first place to
coordinate internal activity at a multicellular level, most notably the use of multicellular …

This article addresses why the neural network model has been selected by nature against
other computational models to generate behavior in complex multicellular clades. This …

Nervous systems may have originated in the late Ediacaran period to rapidly detect “critical
states” of the first predators (or prey) being within striking distance, likely by virtue of …

Nervous systems are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, yet the evolutionary origin of this
essential feature, the basis of human cognition, is unclear. Since the emergence of nervous …