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evolution of sensory systems is driven by the d reproducein a naturalistic sensory envineural architectures are also shaped by constraints These constraints include the lopm.. e.... ntal constraints that restrict the posmutations as well as stochastic developmental systerms are further limited by metabolic costs, e cost of maintaining ionic gradients. Finally, limited by the propertiesof their own the existence of intrinsic electrical of signal propagation, the restricted synapses and firing rates, and the quasisynaptic integration. Importantly, many of constraints are fundamentally in conflict with as they pressure evolution in opposite neural systems are shaped by the need to trade... offbetween competing factors. Many are common to many sensory modalities, and organismsas different as flies and humans. can help explain why some features of neural shared