When most people look at lobsters, they see dinner. Eve Marder saw a key to the theoretical underpinnings of animal behaviour. Ishani Ganguli reports.
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Ishani Ganguli is a freelance writer in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ganguli, I. Neuroscience: A gut feeling. Nature 450, 21–23 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450021a
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