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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.
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Crocca is internationally known for having proposed, in 2006, a new taxonomic system that would include the hypothetical microorganism thought to have been detected on Mars by the Viking lander in 1976. Though these findings were later deemed inconclusive, some scientists interpret the results as evidence of metabolism, and therefore of life; the major proponents of this position are Gilbert Levin, Rafael Navarro-González, and Ronald Paepe.
Crocco proposed the creation of new Linnaean categories in order to incorporate hypothetical Martian microorganisms:
Neurobiology and psychophysics
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.