title: Grandmother elephants.
abstract: As new technology makes it possible to perform experiments that were unimaginable a decade ago, Eve Marder argues that we can still learn from the past.
authors.affiliation: is an eLife senior editor and is at the Department of Biology and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems , Brandeis University , Waltham , United States marder@brandeis.edu.
authors.forename: Eve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marder
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D062308:Optogenetics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
keywords: Living science; history of science; neuroscience