Iain McGilchrist Quotes

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

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• We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Long
  • Blind
  • Cells