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Featuring a collection of articles on brain evolution, this title covers topics such as brain character reconstruction, principles of brain scaling, basic features of vertebrate brains, the evolution of the major sensory systems and other parts of brains, the origin of neocortex, and the evolution of specializations of human brains.
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PART 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, METHODS AND CONCEPTS
Striedter: History of Ideas on Brain Evolution; Albert: Phylogenetic Character Reconstruction; Reichert, Hirth: Basic Nervous System "Types": One or Many?; Reichert, Lichtneckert: Origin and Evolution of the First Nervous System; Marín, López-Bendito: Neuronal Migration; Innocenti: The Role of Transient Connections in Brain Evolution; Cherniak: Neural Wiring Optimization; Stevens: Principles of Brain Scaling
PART 2 THE EVOLUTION OF BRAINS IN EARLY VERTEBRATES, FISHES, AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES AND BIRDS
Fritzsch, Glover: Structure of Brains of Primitive Vertebrates (tunicates, amphioxus, lampreys) and the Basic Features of the Vertebrate Brain; Wullimann, Varnier: Evolution of the Nervous System in Fishes; Roth, Dicke: Evolution of the Amphibian Nervous System; Bruce: Evolution of the Nervous System in Reptiles; Medina: Do Birds and Reptiles Possess Homologues of Mammalian Visual, Somatosensory and Motor Cortices?; Jarvis: The Evolution of Vocal Learning Systems in Birds and Humans; Martinez-Garcia, Novejarque, Lanuza: The Evolution of the Amygdala in Vertebrates; Fernald: The Evolution of Vertebrate Eyes; Eisthen, Polese: Vertebrate Olfactory Subsystems and their Evolution; Finger: The Evolution of Taste Systems; Soares, Carr: Shared and Convergent Features of the Auditory System of Vertebrates
PART 3 EVOLUTION OF MAMMALIAN BRAINS
Jerison: How Can Fossils Tell us About the Evolution of the Neocortex?; Molnár, Tavare, Cheung: The Origin of Neocortex: Lessons from Comparative Embryology; Kaas: Reconstructing the Organization of the Forebrain of the First Mammals; Krubitzer, Hunt: Captured in the net of space and time: Understanding cortical field evolution; Kaas: The Evolution of the Dorsal Thalamus in Mammals; Reiner: The Evolution of the Basal Ganglia in Mammals and other Vertebrates; Eichenbaum: The Evolution of the Hippocampus; Glickstein, Oberdick, Voogd: The Evolution of the Cerebellum; Illig: Olfactory Cortex: Comparative Anatomy; Graf: Vestibluar System; Simon, Nicolelis, Araujo: Evolution of Gustation; Catania: The Evolution of the Somatosensory System; Zook: Somatosensory Specializations of Flying Mammals; Nudo: The Evolution of Motor Cortex and Motor Systems; Lyon: The Evolution of Visual Cortex and Visual Systems
PART 4 PRIMATE BRAIN EVOLUTION
Preuss: Primate Brain Evolution; Ross, Martin: The Role of Vision in the Origin and Evolution of Primates; Kaas: The Evolution of Sensory and Motor Systems in Primates; Casagrande: The evolution of parallel pathways in the brains of primates; Hackett: The evolution of the primate and human auditory system; Deacon: The evolution of language systems in the human brain; Corballis: The evolution of hemispheric specializations of the human brain; Frey: Neurological specializations for manual gesture and tool use in humans; Allman: Frontal Cortex Evolution in Primates
