I got bitten by the history-of-neuroscience bug a long time ago - I like looking at old papers. They're written in a more colloquial manner. When Jason came to me, I immediately agreed, and it turned into a fun little journey. Every single name and date, every single atlas, led us to another name and date or another atlas or another paper. I would look at pictures and hack my way through the German. We saw decades' worth of publications where scientists argued that the VOF didn't exist. The most aggressive argument came in 1891, and it was based on the fact that it didn't exist in a calf embryo! How is that logical? But it didn't matter: Atlases afterward repeated this argument against Wernicke's finding, which perpetuated doubt in the VOF's existence.
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