I think "Human brain evolved from two separate organs" would've been more accurate and sufficiently simple/short for a headline, but I guess it won't fly either due to political reasons.
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replyLying is always a bad choice. The paper in Nature says
reply"Hence, we postulate the brain is a composite organ emanating from two lineage-restricted progenitors; these dual progenitors may be evolutionarily conserved across 550 million years from hemichordates to mammals."
If they had written instead:
reply"Human brain was two separate organs"
Then, both attention grabbig and true?
Human Brain Evolved From Two Separate Organs.
replyProbably not, because by the time hominids were a thing, it was one.
reply(if I'm reading parent poster correctly)
Are there other composite organs?
replyYes, but this is left for the next years because they give only one Nobel preis per year.
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