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- “But - I thought flies didn’t have brains?”
- Joan Bates, Grandmother, circa. Summer 2016
Neuronal cell types
“Would it be too ambitious to expect that, at least in relation to certain sensory centers or particular mechanisms of neuronal reaction, invertebrates, especially insects, offer some interpretative criteria for the nervous systems of ‘superior’ vertebrates?”" (SR y Cajal)
Understanding nervous systems
“When the systems approach can be connected to the mechanisms approach so that its feedback loop and automata becomes clothed in flesh and blood, we shall see real and exciting progress in understanding behaviour.” ~ (Kenneth Roeder)
The fly olfactory system
A tunnel into the brain.
“FROM many directions, workers are tunnelling hopefully into the mountain, some with steam shovels and others with dental drills. Some travel blindly in a circle and come out close to their point of entrance; some connect, usually in a mismatched fashion, with the burrows of others. Some have chosen to disregard the random activities of their fellows and have worked out in a small region an elegant system of tunnels of their own. Both the attraction and confusion of this multitudinous excavation lie in the fact that none of these workers knows precisely what they are looking for, or what they will find.” (Kenneth Roeder)
