I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

If the same cell migrates to the auditory cortex it would develop functions related to hearing regardless of its genetic lineage. Then with Francis Crick Leslie Barnett and Richard J. Brenner wrote "A Life In Science" (ISBN 0-9540278-0-9) paperback publiSydney Brennerd by Biomed Central Ltd.

Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council Unit in Cambridge England.