Scientists have discovered “striking similarities” between human brains, the nervous system of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and computer chips.

They found that all three shared two basic properties, probably because they represent the most efficient way of wiring a complex network in a confined physical space:

A Russian doll-like architecture, with the same patterns repeating over and over again at different scales.

Rentian scaling, a rule used to describe the relationship between the number of elements in a given area and the number of links between them.

More info: University of Cambridge News