Comments on: Brains of tiny spiders fill their body cavities and legs, Smithsonian researchers discover http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/12/brains-of-tiny-spiders-fill-their-body-cavities-and-legs-smithsonian-researchers-find/ News about the Smithsonian’s research in the fields of anthropology, astrophysics, conservation biology, geology, materials science, paleontology, zoology, and global climate change. Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Richard D'Aeth http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/12/brains-of-tiny-spiders-fill-their-body-cavities-and-legs-smithsonian-researchers-find/#comment-18180 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:30:15 +0000 http://smithsonianscience.org/?p=16625#comment-18180 I would love to see and read much more about the structure of the brains of spiders and other animals – and to know more about the micro-anatomy of their nervous system.

Are their nerves myelinised? There is so much to find out!

]]> By: SAMUEL LEE ALBERT http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/12/brains-of-tiny-spiders-fill-their-body-cavities-and-legs-smithsonian-researchers-find/#comment-18123 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:12:25 +0000 http://smithsonianscience.org/?p=16625#comment-18123 It had not dawned on me that it was thiers brain. That is so intresting that brains can only be so small, limited by thier design. Restrictions of basic functions and data storage. I had a theory of data being writen / stored differently from one species to another. The theory may be posible, but insirmountible to this discovery. If size and strenth is determined by the need for durability, and basic function are only require a certian amount of space. This find is an example of the amount of brain mass is required for higher thinking. Thought may be more complex that previously believed. Data storage differs from prosseses of intuitive thought….smaller than a pin! that is a sharp eye, steady hand and sharp scalple.

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