PHOTOS: 100-Year-Old Drawings of the Human Brain

PHOTOS: 100-Year-Old Drawings Of The Human Brain
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With an artist's eye and a scientist's mind, anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal was the first to see -- and illustrate -- what neurons really do. His exquisitely detailed drawings changed our understanding of the brain and nervous system.

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