The Shocking History of Electric Fishes: From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology

The Shocking History of Electric Fishes: From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology
ISBN-10
0195366727
ISBN-13
9780195366723
Category
Medical
Pages
470
Language
English
Published
2011-09-08
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Stanley Finger, Marco Piccolino

Description

This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book examines the importance of electric fishes in science and medicine and how three species in particular shaped neurophysiology. Anchored in the philosophy and science of past epochs, it is the story of one of Nature's greatest puzzles. Over a long and tortuous path, it focuses on how some numbing fishes helped to make physiology modern.

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