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While the first animals, whether gastrula-like or polyp-like creatures, clearly had neurons, they had no brain. Like today’s coral polyps and jellyfish, their nervous system was what scientists call a nerve net: a distributed web of independent neural circuits implementing their own independent reflexes.
