Mario Crocco is an Argentine neurobiologist, since 1982 director of the Neurobiological Investigations Center of the Argentine health ministry and since 1988 director of the Electroneurobiological Investigations Laboratory at Hospital Borda in Buenos Aires.
Crocco is internationally known for having proposed in March 2007, a new taxonomic system that would include the hypothetical microorganism thought to have been detected on Mars by the Viking lander biological experiments in 1976. Though these findings were later deemed inconclusive, [1] some scientists interpret the results as evidence of metabolism, and therefore of life; the major proponents of this position are Gilbert Levin, [2] Rafael Navarro-González, [3] and Ronald Paepe. [4]
Crocco proposed the creation of new Linnaean categories in order to incorporate hypothetical Martian microorganisms: [5]
The intended effect was to reverse the burden of proof concerning the life issue, but biologists stated that naming a 'species' at this point is inappropriate, as it may lend credibility to the possibility that life has been detected. [6] The proposed rationale was rejected by the scientific community and it remains a Nomen nudum as there is no evidence of organic biomolecules.
Contributions to those fields are summarized in a Festschrift from 2008 (2nd ed., 2014), available from Internet:
Contreras, Norberto C. (2014). Algunos aportes de Mario Crocco a la neurobiología y psicofísica (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Rueda. ISBN 978-950-564-097-3.
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Mario Crocco is an Argentine neurobiologist, since 1982 director of the Neurobiological Investigations Center of the Argentine health ministry and since 1988 director of the Electroneurobiological Investigations Laboratory at Hospital Borda in Buenos Aires.
Crocco is internationally known for having proposed in March 2007, a new taxonomic system that would include the hypothetical microorganism thought to have been detected on Mars by the Viking lander biological experiments in 1976. Though these findings were later deemed inconclusive, [1] some scientists interpret the results as evidence of metabolism, and therefore of life; the major proponents of this position are Gilbert Levin, [2] Rafael Navarro-González, [3] and Ronald Paepe. [4]
Crocco proposed the creation of new Linnaean categories in order to incorporate hypothetical Martian microorganisms: [5]
The intended effect was to reverse the burden of proof concerning the life issue, but biologists stated that naming a 'species' at this point is inappropriate, as it may lend credibility to the possibility that life has been detected. [6] The proposed rationale was rejected by the scientific community and it remains a Nomen nudum as there is no evidence of organic biomolecules.
Contributions to those fields are summarized in a Festschrift from 2008 (2nd ed., 2014), available from Internet:
Contreras, Norberto C. (2014). Algunos aportes de Mario Crocco a la neurobiología y psicofísica (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Rueda. ISBN 978-950-564-097-3.
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