Comments on: Shrimp Couples Use Sponges as Gingerbread Houses http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/01/shrimp-couples-use-sponges-as-gingerbread-houses/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/01/shrimp-couples-use-sponges-as-gingerbread-houses/#comment-25336 Torbjörn Larsson, OM Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:52:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18644#comment-25336 I think vertebrates missed something when (IIRC) we lost the promiscuous legs of the ancestral form and redeveloped general appendages. Invertebrate tool sets look awesome! As for that last: sponges don't have nerve cells IIRC, so likely no comfort problem for the individual. Surely they vote with any evolutionary advantage, so this would be a vote "for"? I think vertebrates missed something when (IIRC) we lost the promiscuous legs of the ancestral form and redeveloped general appendages. Invertebrate tool sets look awesome!

As for that last: sponges don’t have nerve cells IIRC, so likely no comfort problem for the individual. Surely they vote with any evolutionary advantage, so this would be a vote “for”?

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