Past as prelude:The central nervous system of vertebrates

✍ Scribed by Holstege, Gert; Saper, Clifford B.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Volume: 410
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9967
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19990719)410:1<1::aid-cne1>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

Evolution and adaptation are among the most profound issues in biology and philosophy because, in contemplating the amazing variety among animal species, we are inevitably led to ponder our own nature.'' -R. Nieuwenhuys, H.J. ten Donkelaar, and C. Nicholson

The Journal of Comparative Neurology, as a matter of policy, does not publish book reviews. Hence, when the three large volumes constituting the monumental work, The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, by Rudolf Nieuwenhuys, Hans J. ten Donkelaar, and Charles Nicholson, were published last year by Springer Verlag (Fig. ), we declined to provide a review. However, after examining the books, we decided that they represent a unique resource that defines a field and a unique opportunity for the editors of The Journal of Comparative Neurology to define our relationship to that field. Hence, we will break with tradition this one time to use the occasion of the publication of these volumes as an opportunity for the Journal to take stock of its heritage and its future.