In article <wasel.137.0 at 144.124.203.204> wasel at 144.124.203.204 (Wasel Chemij) writes:
>I'd like to produce a table of various animals approximate
>brain sizes (in neurons), but I'm problems finding the data.
>>So far I've got
>> Leech - (Hirudo medicinalis) 13,000
> Marine Snail (Aplysia) 20,000
> Human 10^11
>The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has 302 neurons. Note that this
number applies to the hermaphroditic form of the organism. The male
form has more (359 rings a bell, but I'm not positive).
Stephen R. Wicks, PHONE: 604-822-9183
Graduate Program in Neuroscience,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. swicks at unixg.ubc.ca