After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

That's amazing. I'm surprised that mouse brains have only 1000 times more neurons than a fruit fly, although I suppose the difficulty of mapping it scales exponentially (factorially?)

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