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Cover: Representatives of notable phyla in the evolution of the first nervous systems. Clockwise from top left: the ctenophore Pleurobrachia (photo credit: Leonid Moroz); the sea anemone Nematostella (photo credit: Eric Rottinger); sponge choanocytes (photo credit: Sally Leys); the scyphozoan jellyfish Cyanea (photo credit: Peter Anderson); the brain of an acoel worm (photo credit: Elena Perea-Atienza and Brenda Gavilán). Centre: a choanoflagellate colony (photo credit: Pawel Burkhardt). - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution of the First Nervous Systems
INSIDE JEB
EDITORIAL
ORIGINS OF THE ‘NEURONAL TOOL BOX’
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER – THE EMERGENCE OF NERVOUS SYSTEMS
Embracing allyship in experimental biology to help close the gender gap

In their Perspective, Janneke Schwaner and Ksenia Keplinger propose 10 useful strategies for experimental biologists at all career stages to become active allies for gender diversity and inclusion and to help close the gender gap in our field.
The Company of Biologists celebrates its first Global South Workshop

In March 2024, Andrea Fuller and Kênia Bicego organised the first Global South (GS) Workshop hosted by The Company of Biologists - How Global South Research Can Shape the Future of Comparative Physiology - bringing together ECRs from the GS and international experts in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Find out about this extraordinary meeting in our Perspective.
High-resolution WildPose 3D scans revolutionise biomechanics in the wild

Collecting detailed kinematics from animals in the wild is a holy grail of biomechanics, and now Naoya Muramatsu and colleagues reveal the extraordinary observations that they have made with their new WildPose wildlife motion capture system in South Africa.
Interviews with Biologists @ 100 conference speakers

Explore our interviews with keynote speakers from the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted to celebrate our publisher’s 100th anniversary, where we discuss climate change and biodiversity with Hans-Otto Pörtner and Jane Francis, health and disease with Charles Swanton and emerging technologies with Manu Prakash and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
Fast & Fair peer review

Our sister journal Biology Open has recently launched the next phase of their Fast & Fair peer review initiative: offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days. To learn more about BiO’s progress and future plans, read the Editorial by Daniel Gorelick, or visit the Fast & Fair peer review page.