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Informationen zum Autor Ken Ashwell has over 29 years in the neurosciences field, including teaching experience in medical anatomy, neuroscience, comparative anatomy and anthropology. Ken has published over 100 papers in international refereed neuroscience journals, ten book chapters and four books. He has published four developmental and adult brain atlases in collaboration with George Paxinos and colleagues and contributed to a prestigious and definitive work on the anatomy of the human nervous system edited by Jürgen Mai and George Paxinos. With research funding support from the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, Ken has published more than 30 papers in international refereed journals on comparative neuroscience of living and recently extinct Australasian mammals and birds, 20 of these have been on monotreme neuroanatomy and 9 on marsupial neuroanatomy. Ken is currently Professor of Anatomy at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Klappentext A comprehensive and authoritative review of the current scientific knowledge of how evolution has shaped the brains of Australian marsupials. Zusammenfassung As early as 1836! Charles Darwin recognised that Australian marsupials and monotremes represented a 'second creation' with parallel adaptations to those seen among mammals elsewhere. This book explores the structure and function of the 'marsupial' brain and its evolution in the context of the changing Australian environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Classification, evolution and behavioural ecology of Australian marsupials K. Ashwell; 2. Overview of marsupial brain organization and evolution K. Ashwell; 3. Development and sexual dimorphism K. Ashwell; 4. Ventral hindbrain and midbrain K. Ashwell; 5. Cerebellum, vestibular and precerebellar nuclei K. Ashwell; 6. Diencephalon and associated structures K. Ashwell; 7. Deep telencephalic structures K. Ashwell; 8. Cerebral cortex and claustrum/endopiriform complex K. Ashwell; 9. Visual system L. D. Beazley, C. Arrese and D. M. Hunt; 10. Somatosensory system L. Marotte, C. Leamey and P. Waite; 11. Auditory system L. Aitkin and R. K. Shepherd; 12. Olfactory system K. Ashwell; 13. Motor system and spinal cord K. Ashwell; 14. Australian marsupials as models of brain development L. Marotte, P. Waite and C. Leamey; 15. Australian marsupials as models of ageing and disease B. McAllan and S. J. Richardson; 16. Atlas of the brain of the stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura) K. Ashwell, B. McAllan and J. K. Mai; 17. Stereotaxic atlas of the brain of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) K. Ashwell and L. Marotte; 18. Atlas of the brain of the developing tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) K. Ashwell, L. Marotte and J. K. Mai....
