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- From: connolly@rabbit.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
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- Subject: Re: 6 legged beast
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:48:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.233010.11281@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> rwmurphr@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree) writes:
- >I'm still waiting for the arthropod neurology textbook:
- >
- > "Everything you need to know about insect brains and locomotion to
- > be a mobile roboticist"
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- From what I can tell, there is a great deal more a) interest in, b)
- money for, and c) literature about mammalian nervous systems than
- insect nervous systems.
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- For instance, a recent issue of Neuroscience lists I think 2 or 3
- articles dealing with insects, out of about 20 total. The rest are
- pretty much devoted to mammals (rats and cats, normally). I haven't
- actually done article counts in other journals like Brain or J.
- Comparative Neurology, but at least in my wanderings, the majority
- seem to be devoted to mammalian CNS. This isn't surprising, since
- human neurological disorders are probably better studied through
- mammals than through insects.
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