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Letter: In defence of the brain as a complex structure

Published 10 January 2024

From Chris Newton, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK

Tom Reimchen says we shouldn’t claim the human brain is “the most complicated structure in the known universe”. I agree, if it is put like that. It would seem very reasonable, however, to claim that it is “the most complicated known structure in the universe” (Letters, 16/23 December 2023).

Issue no. 3473 published 13 January 2024

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