Evolution of the Nervous System Extrapolated from Ctenophore and the Resurrection of Golgi’s Reticular Theory?

For over a century,the structure and evolution of the nervous system have been at the center of debate among biologists.In the 19th century,Camillo Golgi first proposed that the nervous system is a syncytial continuum,with neurons being directly connected with shared cell membranes and cytoplasm[1].This concept is known as the reticular theory(also referred to as the syncytial theory).However,this view was later challenged by Santiago Ramon y Cajal,who put forward the neuronal doctrine[2].