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Do cockroaches have more than one brain, and if so, where are they located and what functions do they control?

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Cockroaches do have 2 brains with around one million brain cells versus our 100,000,000 brain cells. The cockroach brain is not so much a brain as we think of it but rather two nerve cell clusters.

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