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In Connectome: How the brain’s wiring makes us who we are, Sebastian Seung explores the mapping of our circuitry and how much it can tell us about ourselves
BIOLOGY is in the midst of a revolution that is changing what we know and can know. The large-scale studies of genes and proteins, known as genomics and proteomics, have been joined in neuroscience by connectomics, the endeavour to find the complete wiring diagram of the brain – the connectome.…
