As an extension to my earlier post, I thought it would be a good idea to pull out the following brief essay from the 'Brainbabies' edition of The InGenius Series of bookazines, originally intended for kids & their parents, by Dilip Mukerjea:Do you know that...
As an immature larva, the sea squirt (a marine creature) spends its time swimming around. It can move, see and sense, and it has a wee brain.However, when it becomes mature, the sea squirt changes its lifestyle and attaches itself to a rock.
It no longer swims around, because it now lives by eating other little stuff in the seawater. At this stage, the sea squirt performs a miraculous act: it eats its own brain!
Because it no longer needs it! No movement, no brain!
Movement is essential to brain development!
[All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]
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