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Cortical evolution in primates : what primates are, what primates were, and why the cortex changed / Steven P. Wise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wise, Steven P., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primates--Evolution.
- Primates.
- Cerebral cortex--Evolution.
- Cerebral cortex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This text provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an interest in cortical evolution and primates.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Reference figure
- List of abbreviations: text
- List of abbreviations: figures
- Epigraph
- Part I. What primates are
- 1. Topics tackled
- Overview
- Why?
- What?
- When?
- Why now?
- Why not?
- Why not now?
- Why try?
- Chapter summary
- References
- 2. Compact cladistics
- Introduction
- Taxing terminology
- Homology, homoplasy, and analogy
- Trees and scales
- Old and new areas
- 3. Present primates
- Taxing taxonomy
- Principal primate clades
- Strepsirrhines
- Haplorhines
- Catarrhines
- To "the" or not to "the"
- Part II. What primates were
- 4. Prolog to paleontology
- The dating scene
- Bodies from bones
- Focus on forests
- 5. Arboreal adaptations
- Primates true and stem
- Into the trees
- Cortical considerations
- 6. Primate paleoecology
- Paleocene plesiadapiforms
- Eocene Euprimates
- Oligocene openings and Miocene monkeys
- Miocene modifications and Plio-Pleistocene primates
- Part III. What primate cortex was
- 7. Great grades of gray
- Measures and misconceptions
- Grades and clades
- Eocene expansions
- 8. Greater grades of gray
- Miocene monkeys and apes
- Plio-Pleistocene hominins
- Body or brain?
- 9. Tempo and temperature
- Time travel
- Cooling and crisis
- Corticalization and speciation
- Cortex and corpus
- References.
- 10. Other orders
- Pride of place
- The origin of mammals
- Brain expansion
- Parietofrontia
- Part IV. What primate cortex is
- 11. Cortical comparisons
- A Declaration of Independence
- Flying primates, feathered apes
- Crucial comparisons
- Misconceptions: minor and massive
- 12. Suites of specializations
- From tip to toe
- Suite success
- 13. Anthropoid adaptations
- The big chill
- Frontal-field phylogeny
- Changes at the top
- Sights and sounds on the side
- Guilt by association
- 14. Human hemispheres
- Whole hemispheres
- Area analysis
- Sensational size
- Temporal tracts
- Allocortical alterations
- Cortex and chromosomes
- Part V. Why the cortex changed
- 15. Eocene expansions
- What's new is old
- The cortex complete
- Eocene enlargements
- 16. Anthropoid augmentations
- Groups, grub, and gray matter
- Statistics and significance
- Climate and cortex
- Principal proposal
- 17. Pleistocene prizes
- Suggestions for selection
- Self and social systems
- 18. Corticalization and composition
- Cortical chauvinism
- Parts and primates
- Questions and conclusions
- Instead of intelligence: representations
- Epilogue
- Crucial glossary
- Extended glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-196433-6
- 0-19-269462-6
- 0-19-269461-8
- OCLC:
- 1409593206
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