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Nature 448, 537 (2 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448537a; Published online 1 August 2007

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Nervous systems made simple

Eve Marder1

BOOK REVIEWEDAn Introduction to Nervous Systems

by Ralph Greenspan

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: 2007. 200 pp. $45, £26.99

Until I saw pieces of giant squid in a fish market in Chile, I somehow hadn't appreciated that giant squids were really giant. Ralph Greenspan's An Introduction to Nervous Systems will similarly enlighten many of its readers on the wonders to be found through the study of invertebrate nervous systems and the behaviours they control.