Evolutionary anatomy of the primate cerebral cortex / edited by Dean Falk & Kathleen R. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falk, Dean.

Gibson, Kathleen Rita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cerebral cortex--Anatomy.

Cerebral cortex.

Cerebral cortex--Evolution.

Cerebral Cortex--anatomy & histology.

Evolution.

Medical Subjects:

Cerebral Cortex--anatomy & histology.

Evolution.

Physical Description:

xvii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2001]

Summary:

State-of-the-art review of brain evolution in primates including humans.

Contents:

Prologue: Size matters and function counts / Stephen Jay Gould xiii

Part I The evolution of brain size

1 Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? / Peter M. Kaskan, Barbara L. Finlay 14

2 Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic, David R. Kornack 30

3 In defense of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis / Leslie C. Aiello, Nicola Bates, Tracey Joffe 57

4 Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition / Kathleen R. Gibson, Duane Rumbaugh, Michael Beran 79

5 The evolution of sex differences in primate brains / Dean Falk 98

6 Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road? / Michel A. Hofman 113

Part II Neurological substrates of species-specific adaptations

7 The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution / Todd M. Preuss 138

8 Pheromonal communication and socialization / Brunetto Chiarelli 165

9 Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during austalopithecine times / Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, Michael S. Yuan 177

10 Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains / Emmanuel Gilissen 187

11 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 216

12 The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution / Phillip V. Tobias 241

13 Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction / Katerina Semendeferi 257

14 Exo-and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans / Katrin Schafer, Horst Seidler, Fred L. Bookstein, Hermann Prossinger, Dean Falk, Glenn Conroy 290

Epilogue: The study of primate brain evolution: where do we go from here? / Harry J. Jerison 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

052164271X

OCLC:

44818347