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Draws together research from eminent scientists from across the globe in the areas of phytoremediation and microbial remediation Includes case studies of engineered bacterial remediation Covers the genome editing CRISPR-Cas9 system that has been less explored in plants and microorganisms
List of contents
Part 1: History, Concepts, and Theory
1. History of Ideas on Brain Evolution
2. Phylogenetic Character Reconstruction
3. The role of endocasts in the study of brain evolution
4. Invertebrate origins of vertebrate nervous systems
Part 2: The Brains of Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds
5. The nervous systems of jawless vertebrates
6. The brains of cartilaginous fishes
7. The organization of the central nervous system of amphibians
8. The brains of reptiles and birds
9. Function and evolution of the reptilian cerebral cortex
10. The cerebellum of non-mammalian vertebrates
Part 3: Early Mammals and Subsequent Adaptations
11. Emergence of mammals
12. Mammalian Evolution: The phylogenetic story
13. Organization of neocortex in early mammals
14. What modern mammals teach us about the cellular composition of early brains and mechanisms of brain evolution
15. Consistencies and variances in the anatomical organization of aspects of the mammalian brain stem
16. Comparative anatomy of glial cells in mammals
17. The monotreme nervous system
18. Evolution of flight and echolocation in bats
19. Carnivore brains: Effects of sociality on inter- and intra-specific comparisons of regional brain volumes
Part 4: Primates
20. Phylogeny of primates
21. Expansion of the cortical sheet in primates
22. Scaling up the simian primate cortex: A conserved pattern of expansion across brain sizes
23. Evolution of visual cortex in primates
24. Evolution of subcortical pathways to the extrastriate cortex
25. Evolved mechanisms of high-level visual perception in primates
26. Evolution of parietal cortex in primates
27. Evolution of parietal-frontal networks in primates
28. Evolution of the prefrontal cortex in early primates and anthropoids
Part 5: Evolution of Human Brains
29. Introduction to human brain evolutionary studies
30. Human evolutionary history
31. Evolution of human life history
32. The fossil evidence of human brain evolution
33. Remarkable, but not special: What human brains are made of
34. Timing of brain maturation, early experience, and the human social niche
35. Human association cortex: Expanded, untethered, neoteneous, and plastic
36. On the evolution of the frontal eye field: comparisons of monkeys, apes and humans
37. The evolution of auditory cortex in humans
38. Language evolution
39. The search for human cognitive specializations
About the author
Kaas's major research interests are in the evolution and functional organization of sensory-perceptual, cognitive, and motor systems, especially in primates, in the development of these systems, and in how these systems are plastic in response to injury and use in developing and adult brains. Special research emphasis is placed on studying visual, auditory and somatosensory systems, but current studies are also concerned with multimodal and sensorimotor integration in parietal and frontal cortex. Research questions are addressed with a range of electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, biochemical, and behavioral techniques. Teaching interests are in neuroscience, biological psychology, and animal behavior.
Current Research:
• Single and multielectrode recordings of neurons in primary somatosensory cortex of monkeys.
• Optical imaging of functional subdivisions of visual cortex in monkeys.
• Studies of anatomical connections of neural networks in brain systems devoted to somatosensory, visual, auditory, motor, and gustatory functions in monkeys.
• Studies of brain architecture.
