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INDEPENDENT EVOLUTION. "Originally coined to emphasize morphological differences, ‘microphyll’ and ‘megaphyll’ became synonymous with the idea that vascular plant leaves are not homologous. Although it is now accepted that leaves evolved independently in several euphyllophyte lineages, ‘megaphyll’ has grown to reflect another type of homology, that of euphyllophyte leaf precursor structures." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138508002987 View in LinkedIn

PLANT EMERGENCE. "Vascular plants evolved in the Middle to Late Silurian period, about 420 million years ago. The fossil record indicates that these primitive plants had branched stems with sporangia but no leaves. Leaf-like lateral outgrowths subsequently evolved on at least two independent occasions." https://lnkd.in/dkj5_Ru View in LinkedIn

PREDICTING MEMORY FAILURE. “Researchers developed an algorithm that predicted with high accuracy whether a person would remember a given word. By stimulating the brain only when a person read words that were likely to be forgotten, the researchers could boost performance by up to 140%. Penn psychologist Michael Kahana says that the team has recorded from the brains of about 80 people in total and is seeking regulatory approval to use a more precise electrode array.” https://lnkd.in/d6RG5sQ View in LinkedIn

MONKEY TESTS. “Facilitation of memory encoding in primate hippocampus by a neuroprosthesis that promotes task-specific neural firing.” https://lnkd.in/d9AVWD6 View in LinkedIn