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Published on: 10/11/2008
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By Ralph J. Greenspan, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California
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Greenspan describes the mechanisms that allow behavior to become ever more sophisticated—from simple avoidance behavior of Paramecium through to the complex cognitive behaviors of the honeybee—and shows how these mechanisms produce the increasing neural complexity found in these organisms.
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Quite a bit, comes the answer from Ralph Greenspan, a distinguished neuroscientist working in San Diego, California ...
This book will certainly encourage a new generation of neuroscientists to look to the invertebrates in the search for the principles that underlie the workings of all complicated nervous systems.It fills an important niche alongside the larger, well-established text books of neuroscience, and is strongly recommended."—BioEssays
review:"Greenspan blends descriptions of invertebrate behavior with lessons on fundamental principles of molecular, cellular, and network neurobiology.