15: A Short History of Biology, Isaac Asimov

Fun easy read. It's interesting to note that the book is copyrighted 1964 and that the function of the Golgi apparatus was unknown at that time. Was it really? I haven't had the patience to check yet. Simple web searches cannot settle the matter either way.

The most astonishing thing in the book is a sentence mentioning that flatworms that eat a flatworm that has learned a specific behaviour will take over that behaviour (page 176). No reference! Must find!

Edit: thank you, Wikipedia: memory experiments in planarian worms. The original article: J. V. McConnell, (1962) Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarium, J. Neuropsychiat. 3 suppl 1 542-548