Response to Bolton et al.

Nicholas J. Strausfeld; David R. Andrew; Frank Hirth

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.013

Response to Bolton et al.

Nicholas J. Strausfeld
, David R. Andrew
, Frank Hirth

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Responding to Bolton et al. ¹ we remind that our 2025 study ² investigated the identity of a fossilized euarthropod nervous system with reference to extant species, a strategy already deployed on certain Cambrian taxa ³ . Claims that we failed to identify features defining the extant arachnid prosomal nervous system is here invalidated, as are implausible expectations that neural characters could disambiguate phylogenetic relationships relying on respiratory systems.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R128-R129
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.013
State	Published - Feb 23 2026

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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