Arthropod brains : evolution, functional elegance, and historical significance /
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Author / Creator: | Strausfeld, Nicholas James, 1942- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 [i.e. 2011], c2012. |
Description: | xvi, 830 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Arthropoda -- Nervous system. Arthropoda -- Nervous system -- Research -- History. Brain -- Evolution. Brain -- Evolution -- Research -- History. Arthropoda -- Nervous system. Brain -- Evolution. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8681105 |
Table of Contents:
- The polymath of Rennes
- Discoveries and losses
- RamoĢn y Cajal's hunting case watch
- Beneath the faceted eye
- In the air and under the water : the olfactory brain
- The mushroom body enigma
- The brain within the brain
- Eight legs and more : chelicerates, myriapods, and some distant relatives
- Reiterations, appendages, and the ancient brain
- Philosophical anatomy, Swedish pioneers, and neuronal systematics
- Convergence or common descent?
- The origin of insects.