mass who was not involved in the study said thatthis is an elegant and original study that addresses a longstanding question in the reproduction and programmed deaths of most octopusesdr wang said that for us what was most exciting was seeing this parallel between octopuses other invertebrates and even humans she added that it was remarkable to see this shared use of the same molecules in animals that are very distant from each otherthe molecules may be the same but the death she said is very different we generally view human death as a failure of organ systems or of functionbut in an octopus thats not true dr wang said the system is supposed to be doing this