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GLOBAL SUCCESS. "Evidently, leaves are a global success. However, the advent of large megaphylls took place some 40–50 million years (Myr) after the origination of vascular land plants, suggesting that they were far from an evolutionary inevitability." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

IMPACT ON INSECTS. "Moreover, plant activities appear to have caused rates of evolution in terrestrial animals to accelerate. Late Palaeozoic insect and tetrapod faunas diversified together with terrestrial plants, and enhanced burial of organic carbon raised global oxygen levels, fuelling a spectacular radiation of insect gigantism." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

"STOMATA are microscopic valves on plant surfaces that originated over 400 million years (Myr) ago and facilitated the greening of Earth's continents by permitting efficient shoot–atmosphere gas exchange and plant hydration." https://lnkd.in/ehcV6zt View in LinkedIn

FUTURE APPLICATIONS. “Now the researchers are working on applying that technique to reconstructing the imaginary—images seen by the mind’s eye or the internal speech that narrates your thoughts. These scientists too envision helping people with locked-in syndrome or ALS communicate, perhaps by using a device that would speak their thoughts aloud.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bright-approach-to-brain-implants-1453480543 View in LinkedIn

TELEPATHY ACHIEVED. “We’ve even emailed verbal thoughts back and forth from person to person.” https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

IMPLANTED MEMORIES. “Scientists can make copies of memories.” (Ted Berger). "I asked Berger if his artificial hippocampus could be used to implant false memories in people. He said that they’ve tried it with monkeys and found that giving their brains a code for the wrong symbol sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t." https://lnkd.in/diFYbCn View in LinkedIn

EMOTIONAL MEMORY. “Our present work provides new insight into the functional neural circuits underlying the malleability of emotional memory.” https://lnkd.in/dbStCyh View in LinkedIn