UID:
almahu_9948234314302882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 344 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511897085 (ebook)
Content:
Studies of brain evolution have moved rapidly in recent years, building on the pioneering research of Harry J. Jerison. This book provides reviews of primate (including human) brain evolution. The book is divided into two sections, the first gives new perspectives on the developmental, physiological, dietary and behavioural correlates of brain enlargement. It has long been recognized, however, that brains do not merely enlarge globally as they evolve, but that their cortical and internal organization also changes in a process known as reorganization. Species-specific adaptations therefore have neurological substrates that depend on more than just overall brain size. The second section explores these neurological underpinnings for the senses, adaptations and cognitive abilities that are important for primates. With a prologue by Stephen J. Gould and an epilogue by Harry J. Jerison, this is an important reference work for all those working on brain evolution in primates.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Prologue: Size matters and function counts / Stephen J. Gould -- Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? / Peter M. Kaskan, Barbara L. Finlay--Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic, David R. Kornack -- In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis / Leslie C. Aiello, Nicola Bates, Tracey Joffe -- Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition / Kathleen R. Gibson, Duane Rumbaugh, Michael Beran -- The evolution of sex differences in primate brains / Dean Falk -- Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road? / Michel A. Hofman -- The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution / Todd M. Preuss -- Pheromonal communication and socialization / Brunetto Chiarelli -- Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times / Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, Michael S. Yuan -- Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains / Emmanuel Gilissen -- Language areas of the hominoid brain: a dynamic communicative shift on the upper east side planum / Patrick J. Gannon, Nancy M. Kheck, Patrick R. Hof -- The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution / Phillip V. Tobias -- Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction / Katerina Semendeferi -- Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans / Katrin Schäfer, Horst Seidler, Fred L. Bookstein, Hermann Prossinger, Dean Falk, Glenn Conroy -- Epilogue: the study of primate brain evolution. Where do we go from here? / Harry J. Jerison.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521642712
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897085
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