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While all these activities are taking place, around 5,000 incompara-
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bly complex cells a second continue to be produced. Structures such as
DNA, RNA, ribosome, proteins and ion channels are all present, perfect-
ly constituted, in every cell. That all these cells, multiplying at such a
rapid rate, know where they have to be, what their function will be, and
what features they must possess as components of a given organ, is most
striking. Moreover, cells belonging to every tissue produce proteins that
determine the particular character of those cells. For example, brain cells
produce proteins that help transmit electricity. Another miraculous phe-
nomenon is how a cell knows which organ it will be a part of and what
kind of activity it will perform, and that it must produce proteins to meet
those requirements. But only when all these details come together can
perfect system actually function. Therefore, in the human body there are
a great many more detailed marvels that we haven’t considered here.
By the eighth week, all the fundamental parts of the body have de-
veloped, and the embryo turns into a fetus. At this point testosterone is
produced, enabling brain development to continue according to the em-
bryo’s gender. In the following weeks, the frontal part of the brain di-
th
vides into two hemispheres. In the 11 week, the rear part develops in
such a way as to form the very visible cerebellum. Cavities in the brain
known as ventricles eventually form an interconnected labyrinth open-
ing to the spinal cord. Pores in this labyrinth permit a colorless fluid to
travel and wash the spinal cord and the brain for the entire lifetime.
By the twentieth week, nerve connections emerge between the
brain’s outer cortex and the baby’s body. Over the next five weeks, con-
nections between the sensory system and the brain are completed.
A large increase in the substance myelin, the brain’s insulation, is
observed in the first months after birth. As soon as the axons have been
insulated, they begin carrying electrical signals much more efficiently.
We are able to carry out a delicate movement only through the neurons
in the brain working efficiently. The axons continue being insulated with
myelin until the age of fifteen, or even later.
The way that such a complex nervous system and command center