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Originally Posted by poprock  Did you know that they have giant nerve fibres, too? The axon of an average squid is 1,000x wider than that of a human. That’s why neuroscientists use squid for their experiments—much less fiddly to work with.
Basically, electrical signals pass through a squid’s nervous system many, many times faster than ours do. |
The squid giant axon. Do you
know how many times this is mentioned during an physiology course? Sick of hearing about the fuckers. Electrophysiologists really get off on the giant axon.
