Octopuses Are Not Aliens—Nick Lane's New Book Explains Why

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On August 14, a writer for Geek.com, Meredith Placko, posted a story with this headline: "Scientists Declare That Octopuses Are Basically Aliens." If you have a Facebook account, you certainly saw this headline in your news feed. And if you bothered to read the post, you would have learned that American and Japanese researchers have sequenced the sea creature's genome and found its DNA structure to be so strange that it seemed