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The Neurotransmitters and the Structures in the Synapse
Seth Grant is one of the few basic scientists I've ever interviewed that has never written a book. He was the one that first introduced me to this idea that the neurotransmitters and all these structures in the synapse, a lot of them are ancient. And he traced synapse development through evolutionary time by looking at organisms on the tree of life. The ancestors of flies and vertebrates had a structure already like that.