by Pallab Ghosh – BBC –
They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates – all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead.
Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single one of its 130,000 cells and 50 million connections. It’s the most detailed analysis of the brain of an adult animal ever produced.
One leading brain specialist independent of the new research described the breakthrough as a “huge leap” in our understanding of our own brains. One of the research leaders said it would shed new light into “the mechanism of thought”.
