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Hormones are distributed through the body by means of blood circulation, and it takes some time for a hormone that is secreted in one location of the body to diffuse through the blood sufficiently that it will reach some other specific location. In comparison, nerve impulses travel very quickly, almost instantaneously as far as our human time scale is concerned.
The nervous system responses are electrical while the hormonal responses have to be released into the bloodstream

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