“The Octopus Genome: Not “Alien” but Still a Big Problem for Darwinism”
“The technical paper explains that the octopus genome reveals “massive expansions in two gene families previously thought to be uniquely enlarged in vertebrates: the protocadherins, which regulate neuronal development, and the C2H2 superfamily of zinc-finger transcription factors.”…
There are some peculiar similarities between the cephalopod genome and something else they’ve seen — but they aren’t the kind of similarities that were predicted by common descent. The technical papers notes that the cephalopod genome bears unexpected resemblance in certain respects to vertebrate genomes — and since these similarities aren’t predicted by common descent, they predictably attribute them to convergent evolution”
So cool. If I was a billionaire I would start up an octopus neurodevelopment lab, I’m just really curious!
