Confronting Rakic's Data
Gould spent the next eight years quantifying endless numbers of radioactive rat hippocampii in pursuit of neurogenesis. Gould was eventually offered a job at Princeton. The very next year, in a series of papers, Gould began documenting neurogenesis in primates, confronting Rakic’s data directly. She demonstrated that adult marmosets created new neurons in their brains, especially in the olfactory cortex and the hippocampus. By 1999, Rakic admitted that neurogenesis was real. To that end he published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reported seeing new neurons in the hippocampus of macaques.
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