Rejuvenating the comparative approach in modern neuroscience
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
65 years ago, the famed behavioral endocrinologist Frank Beach wrote an article in The American Psychologist entitled 'The Snark was a Boojum'. The title refers to Lewis Carroll's poem 'The Hunting of the Snark', in which several characters embark on a voyage to hunt species of the genus Snark. There are many different types of Snarks, some that have feathers and bite, and others that have whiskers and scratch. But, as we learn in Carroll's poem, some Snarks are Boojums! Beach paraphrases Carroll's writing outlining the problem with Boojums: