Cephalization
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Lobster is heavily cephalized, with eyes, antennae, multiple mouthparts, claws, and the brain (inside the armoured exoskeleton), all concentrated at the animal's head end.
Cephalization is an evolutionary trend in which, over many generations, the mouth, sense organs, and nerve ganglia become concentrated at the front end of an animal, producing a head region. This is associated with movement and bilateral symmetry, such that the animal has a definite head end. This led to the formation of a brain in three groups of animals, namely the arthropods, cephalopod molluscs, and vertebrates. Since the molluscs (protostomes) and the vertebrates (deuterostomes) are widely separated on the phylogenetic tree of animals, and have differently organized bodies and brains, cephalization evolved independently in these groups.[1][2]
Contents
1 Animals without bilateral symmetry
2 Bilateria
2.1 Acoela
2.2 Flatworms
2.3 Complex active bodies
2.3.1 Arthropods
2.3.2 Cephalopods
2.3.3 Vertebrates
3 See also
4 References
Animals without bilateral symmetry
Cnidaria such as the radially symmetrical Hydrozoa, show some degree of cephalization. The Anthomedusae have a head end with their mouth, photoreceptive cells, and a concentration of neural cells.[3]
Bilateria
Idealised bilaterian body plan. With a cylindrical body and a direction of forward movement the animal has head and tail ends, favouring cephalization by natural selection. Sense organs and mouth form the basis of the head.
Cephalization is a characteristic feature of the Bilateria, a large group containing the majority of animal phyla. These have the ability to move, using muscles, and a body plan with a front end that encounters stimuli first as the animal moves forwards, and accordingly has evolved to contain many of the body's sense organs, able to detect light, chemicals, and often sound. There is often also a collection of nerve cells able to process the information from these sense organs, forming a brain in several phyla and one or more ganglia in others.[4]
Acoela
The Acoela are basal bilaterians, part of the Xenacoelomorpha. They are small and simple animals, and have very slightly more nerve cells at the head end than elsewhere, not forming a distinct and compact brain. This represents an early stage in cephalization.[5]
Flatworms
The yellow papillae flatworm, Thysanozoon nigropapillosum, is somewhat cephalized, with a distinct head end (at right) which has pseudotentacles and an eyespot.
The Platyhelminthes (flatworms) have a more complex nervous system than the Acoela, and are lightly cephalized, for instance having an eyespot above the brain, near the front end.[5]
Complex active bodies
The philosopher Michael Trestman noted that three bilaterian phyla, namely the arthropods, the molluscs in the shape of the cephalopods, and the chordates, were distinctive in having "complex active bodies", something that the acoels and flatworms did not have. Any such animal, whether predator or prey, has to be aware of its environment—to catch its prey, or to evade its predators. These groups are exactly those that are most highly cephalized.[6][7] These groups, however, are not closely related: in fact, they represent widely separated branches of the Bilateria, as shown on the phylogenetic tree; their lineages split hundreds of millions of years ago. Other (less cephalized) phyla are not shown, for clarity.[8][9][10]
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Arthropods
In arthropods, cephalization progressed with increasing incorporation of trunk segments into the head region. This was advantageous because it allowed for the evolution of more effective mouth-parts for capturing and processing food. Insects are strongly cephalized, their brain made of three fused ganglia attached to the ventral nerve cord, which in turn has a pair of ganglia in each segment of the thorax and abdomen. The insect head is an elaborate structure made of several segments fused rigidly together, and equipped with both simple and compound eyes, and multiple appendages including sensory antennae and complex mouthparts (maxillae and mandibles).[5]
Cephalopods like this cuttlefish have advanced 'camera' eyes.
Cephalopods
Cephalopod molluscs including octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus are the most intelligent and highly cephalized invertebrates, with well-developed senses, including advanced 'camera' eyes and large brains.[11][12]
Vertebrates
Brains of shark and human illustrate accelerating cephalization, as the parts enlarge and change shape.
Cephalization in vertebrates, the group that includes mammals, birds, and fishes, has been studied extensively.[5] The heads of vertebrates are complex structures, with distinct sense organs; a large, multi-lobed brain; jaws, often with teeth; and a tongue. Cephalochordates like Branchiostoma (the lancelet, a small fishlike animal with very little cephalization), are closely related to vertebrates but do not have these structures. In the 1980s, the new head hypothesis proposed that the vertebrate head is an evolutionary novelty resulting from the emergence of neural crest and cranial placodes (thickened areas of ectoderm).[13][14] However, in 2014, a transient larva tissue of the lancelet was found to be virtually indistinguishable from the neural crest-derived cartilage which forms the vertebrate skull, suggesting that persistence of this tissue and expansion into the entire head space could be a viable evolutionary route to formation of the vertebrate head.[15] Advanced vertebrates have increasingly elaborate brains.[5]
See also
- Noogenesis
- Organogenesis
- Phylogenetics
References
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For laysummary see: "Evolution: How vertebrates got a head". Research. Nature (paper). 516 (7530): 171. 11 December 2014.