The Swedish Academy’s rules won’t allow it – but I suggest giving the next Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology to….Drosophila melanogaster – the tiny fruit fly.

Fruit flies are born, mate, have babies, and die, in a matter of weeks.  This short life cycle enables biologists to research their genetics, neurology, and explore the impact of environment, etc., on their genes, over several generations. I’ve written a lot about this.

Yesterday, June 10, Science Daily reports: “Scientists have mapped every neural connection in a fruit fly and found a surprise….!”   “…brain-to-body wiring map behavior may be driven more by local neural teamwork than by a central brain command center….complex behaviors emerge from distributed local circuits, rather........

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