For nearly fifty years the dominant and accepted theory of the evolution of the nervous
system has been that of GH Parker, developed over the course of the decade from 1909 to …

Can speculation about the evolutionary origin of the nervous system have any valile? That
we may never know exactly by what route the beliaviour machinery of thefirst Metazoa was …

This book represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop of the
same name, held at St. Andrews University, Scotland in July of 1989. It was the first meeting …

The student of mammalian neurology has his attention fixed on a mechanism of surpassing
complexity. In the pursuit of his work, he is continually touching problems, both …

The agencies which operate in the differentiation of the nervous system of the individual
animal body are open to direct study by observation and experiment. Attempts have also …

The possible presence of a transitory primitive nervous mechanism in mammais,
comparable to that described for amphibians by Coghill ('13,'14 and elsewhere) and others …

What did the first neurons and nervous systems look like, and what advantages did they
confer on the animals that possessed them? In the seventh essay in Science's series in …

Nervous organization is found in a most elementary form in the sea-anemones. Their
behaviour is brought about partly by specific muscles, partly by the mechanically complex …

The attempt has been made in the following pages to give an account of the nervous system
as a whole, to trace its phylogenetic history and to show the factors which have determined …

Originally published in 1976, the object of this volume was to present a relatively up-to-date
overview of what was known, what was suspected, and what remained to be discovered …