Chance, Repetition, and Error in the Development of Normal Nervous Systems
Chance, Repetition, and Error in the Development of Normal Nervous Systems
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正常神经系统发育中的偶然性、重复性和错误
DOI:
10.1353/pbm.1981.0057
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发表时间:
2015
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1
通讯作者:
P. Clarke
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作者:
P. Clarke
Peter G. H. Clarke is maître assistant in the Department of Anatomy at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, a department which houses one of Western Europe's most distinguished neuroanatomy units. He was born in London in 1946, one of identical twins (we wonder if his brother writes as well). After high school he won a scholarship in engineering at Saint Peter's College, Oxford. Changing fields, Clarke received his Ph.D. from Keele University, working with Professor D. M. MacKay on visually evoked potentials. He then spent 3 years with Professor D. Whitteridge of Oxford, recording from single cells in the visual cortex. The year 1974-1975 was spent at Washington University Medical School in Saint Louis with Professor W. M. Cowan. Here he observed what appeared to be developmental errors in the visual system of chick embryos—the direction of his thinking in this essay. Married to Stéphanie Hosek, also a developmental neurobiologist, Clarke writes religious poetry, enjoys cross-country skiing and tennis, and has forsaken the art of chess because of lack of time.