December 2011
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Electricity: how organisms have been using it for... →
Interesting!
Long before any knowledge of electricity existed, people were aware of shocks from electric fish (circa 2750 BCE). It’s not until 1791, when Luigi Galvani published his discovery of bioelectricity, demonstrating that electricity was the medium by which nerve cells passed signals to the muscles.
So for hmm, maybe almost 80 million years, living beings have been using cells...