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Comparative Physiology of Invertebrates: Hearing and Vision

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Foundations of Sensory Science

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When my interest in biology began, the discipline was not defined (as it usually is in our excellent modern textbooks) as the science of “the natural bodies which possess nucleic acids and proteins, and which are capable of synthesizing such molecules by themselves.” In the Berlin vernacular — quick-tongued as a Berliner is — the plain retort would have been, “Right you are, but all the same it’s just boloney.” And later, I never asked myself whether the living processes which interested me took place in “natural bodies of proteins and nucleic acids.” When I was a student, it was the Protista which fascinated me, and I built my own microscope to study them. In 1923, I also assembled a radio which had a crystal as the rectifier. At that time, it was still forbidden to build a radio, but one could buy a book, written anonymously and entitled How the American Hobbyist Builds a Radio by Himself. Here were the roots of my two later interests; delight in studying living animals and delight in building instruments.

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Autrum, H. (1984). Comparative Physiology of Invertebrates: Hearing and Vision. In: Dawson, W.W., Enoch, J.M. (eds) Foundations of Sensory Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69425-7_1

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