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Evolution: Along came a sea spider

Graham E. Budd1 & Maximilian J. Telford2

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An investigation of brain development in sea spiders provides hints about how the earliest arthropod head evolved. These observations are bound to provoke controversy in an already acrimonious field.

Obscure groups of animals have been making scientific waves lately1, and few are more obscure than the sea spiders, or pycnogonids. These marine, spider-like animals differ from other arthropods, such as the true spiders, crustaceans and insects, in many ways.

  1. Graham E. Budd is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala, Norbyvägen 22, Uppsala SE-752 36, Sweden.
    Email: graham.budd@pal.uu.se
  2. Maximilian J. Telford is in the Department of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
    Email: m.telford@ucl.ac.uk

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