>While a developing mammalian brain grows by just getting bigger — “inflating like it’s a balloon” — the zebra fish brain almost turns itself inside out “like a

>While a developing mammalian brain grows by just getting bigger — “inflating like it’s a balloon” — the zebra fish brain almost turns itself inside out “like a popcorn kernel, so those deep centers are up near the surface where we can image them. Makes me wonder: How big is the hidden cost of destroying rain forests and other habitats? Every species that we lose is the loss of genetically encoded knowledge that could be very useful at some point. Could we protect the environment by making investment fonds eligible to the profits from genetic knowledge on the territory they own?