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by stcredzero 5599 days ago
There have been recent discoveries about synapses as well. It turns out that synapses are pretty complex. Lots of single celled organisms seem to have pretty "smart" behavior for their size. It turns out a lot of that data processing happens around the cell membrane. These mechanisms are the evolutionary roots of synapses.

http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/2008/12/6/surprising-...