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Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems
The nervous system is particularly fascinating for many biologists because it controls animal characteristics such as movement, behavior, and coordinated thinking. Invertebrate neurobiology has traditionally been studied in specific model organisms, whilst knowledge of the broad diversity of nervous system architecture and its evolution among metazoan animals has received less attention. This is the first major reference work in the field for 50 years, bringing together many leading evolutionary neurobiologists to review the most recent research on the structure of invertebrate nervous systems and provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview for a new generation of researchers. Present...
The Oxford Handbook of Invertebrate Neurobiology
Invertebrates have proven to be extremely useful model systems for gaining insights into the neural and molecular mechanisms of sensory processing, motor control and higher functions such as feeding behavior, learning and memory, navigation, and social behavior. A major factor in their enormous contributions to neuroscience is the relative simplicity of invertebrate nervous systems. In addition, some invertebrates, primarily the molluscs, have large cells, which allow analyses to take place at the level of individually identified neurons. Individual neurons can be surgically removed and assayed for expression of membrane channels, levels of second messengers, protein phosphorylation, and RNA...
A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds
A panoramic view of the evolution of life on our planet, from its origins to humanity’s future. In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life and its evolution on earth, the brain—and thus our minds—must also be the result of biological evolution. The aim of this book is to narrate how animal bodies came to be built with their nervous systems and how our species evolved with culture, technology, language, and consciousness. The book...
Film Posters of the 30s
The 1930s was the cinema’s age of innocence, a time when the emphasis was on escapism and entertainment. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn wereBringing Up Baby,Busby Berkely’s precision-drilled chorus girls wereFlying Down to Rio,Fred Astaire was donning hisTop Hat,and John Wayne was climbing on theStagecoachto stardom. As this stunning collection of poster art reveals, it was also the decade of the illustrator, with Al Hirschfeld, Hap Hadley, and Alberto Vargas setting new standards in graphic design. Color may have only just begun to appear on cinema screens, but on the hoardings outside, the hues were bold and dazzling as never before. Tony Nourmand is co-owner of the Reel Poster Gallery in London and a poster consultant to Christie’s; Graham Marsh is a designer and art director. Together, they have producedHorror Poster ArtandScience Fiction Poster Art,and collections of 20th-century film posters by decade.
Metazoa
Così come in «Altre menti», Peter Godfrey-Smith – «palombaro immerso nella scienza della vita» (Carl Safina) – ci invita a seguirlo negli oceani: ed estende questa volta lo sguardo al sottoregno dei metazoi, gli organismi pluricellulari il cui percorso evolutivo, cominciato oltre mezzo miliardo di anni fa, ha incanalato per svolte morfologiche ed emotivo-cognitive l’intera storia della vita animale fino ai primati e a «Homo sapiens». I protagonisti sono quindi, di nuovo, organismi delle profondità marine, a partire dalle stupefacenti «spugne di vetro», diafane torri cilindriche prive di sistema nervoso ma elettricamente non inerti, teatro di esemplari mutualismi e vitale font...
Arthropod Brains
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin proposed that an ant’s brain, no larger than a pin’s head, must be sophisticated to accomplish all that it does. Yet today many people still find it surprising that insects and other arthropods show behaviors that are much more complex than innate reflexes. They are products of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide fundamental insights into how brains process and organize sensory information to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality. Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of this knowledge, beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how similar arthropod brains wer...
Face à une bête sauvage
Le guide qui réensauvage la ville ! Que faire si votre route croise celle d'un moustique, d'un chien errant, d'un ours, d'abeilles énervées, d'un macaque affamé ? Savez-vous que les corneilles ont une mémoire incroyable et comptent parmi les animaux les plus rancuniers ? Que les ours sont myopes mais ont un odorat incroyablement développé ? Face à une bête sauvage, nous réalisons l'étendue de notre ignorance. Nous faisons la brutale expérience de notre propre appartenance au monde animal, et de la faiblesse de notre espèce, qui n'inspire spontanément ni terreur ni crainte. Avec ce guide à la fois informé et étonnant, Joëlle Zask ne nous propose pas seulement de nous prémunir contre une morsure ou un coup de griffe. Elle nous invite à faire connaissance avec les autres animaux de la nature, et à remettre en question la place que nous accordons aux humains parmi eux.
La révolution antispéciste
Êtes-vous spéciste ? Autrement dit, trouvez-vous normal que l’on exploite des animaux pour la seule raison qu’ils ne sont pas humains ? En particulier, vous autorisez-vous à en manger certains ? Si c’est le cas, à l’instar des racistes qui opèrent une discrimination fondée sur la race, vous seriez un adepte d’une idéologie qui opère une discrimination arbitraire fondée sur l’espèce. C’est en tout cas la thèse de ce livre qui entreprend une déconstruction en règle de ce spécisme.Constitué de textes fondamentaux du combat antispéciste français écrits ce dernier quart de siècle en faveur d’une société égalitaire, il offre une réflexion très critique des modes de pensées qui justifient nombre de rapports de domination dans notre société. En particulier, cet ouvrage montre comment l’assimilation au monde naturel de certains êtres sensibles (les Noirs, les femmes, les animaux) est ce qui a permis et, concernant les animaux, permet toujours leur asservissement par ceux qui se voient appartenir au monde de la culture (les Blancs, les hommes, les humains...). Bref, voici un livre qui invite la société à faire sa révolution antispéciste.
Coding Freedom
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narr...
