Denying the Signature in the Brain

Evolution News recently had a superb post about the elegant design of the brain. Rather than a random tangle of neurons and neuronal processes, the brain at the microscopic level is a remarkable organized system of connections.

The complexity of the brain at the microscopic level -- the elegance of the microanatomy and physiology of the brain -- is astonishing. There is even clear evidence of irreducible complexity in innervation of agonist and antagonist muscles -- for example in muscles t...