Dawn of the neuron : the early struggles to trace the origin of nervous systems / Michel Anctil.

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

xiv, 370 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The Precursors -- Louis Agassiz and the First Description of Jellyfish -- German Zoologists and the Rediscovery of Nerves in Jellyfish -- The Hertwig Brothers Open a New Era -- The Experimental Approach to Jellyfish Neurobiology: George Romances and Theodor Eimer -- Edward Schäfer, Jellyfish, and the Neuron Doctrine -- In the Footsteps of the Giants -- George H. Parker and the Broad View of the Elementary Nervous System -- Emil Bozler and the Rise of the Comparative Physiologists -- Carl Pantin and the Well-Tempered Nerve Net -- The Modern Era -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-361) and index.