Dawn of the neuron : the early struggles to trace the origin of nervous systems

Dawn of the neuron : the early struggles to trace the origin of nervous systems /

"In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates"--And deemed these animals too sim...

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Main Author: Anctil, Michel, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Nervous system.
Neurophysiology > History.
Neuroanatomy > History.
Neurons > History.
Cnidaria > cytology.
Neurons.
Nervous System.
Biological Evolution.
Neurophysiology > history.
Neuroanatomy > history.
Neuroanatomy.
Neurophysiology.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • The Precursors
  • Louis Agassiz and the First Description of Jellyfish
  • German Zoologists and the Rediscovery of Nerves in Jellyfish
  • The Hertwig Brothers Open a New Era
  • The Experimental Approach to Jellyfish Neurobiology: George Romances and Theodor Eimer
  • Edward Schäfer, Jellyfish, and the Neuron Doctrine
  • In the Footsteps of the Giants
  • George H. Parker and the Broad View of the Elementary Nervous System
  • Emil Bozler and the Rise of the Comparative Physiologists
  • Carl Pantin and the Well-Tempered Nerve Net
  • The Modern Era
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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