Evolutionary anatomy of the primate cerebral cortex

Prologue: Size matters and function counts / Stephen J. Gould -- Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? / Peter M. Kaskan, Barbara L. Finlay--Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic, David...

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Weitere Verfasser: Falk, Dean (HerausgeberIn), Gibson, Kathleen Rita (BerichterstatterIn), Jerison, Harry J. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge University Press 2001
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Zusammenfassung:Prologue: Size matters and function counts / Stephen J. Gould -- Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? / Peter M. Kaskan, Barbara L. Finlay--Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic, David R. Kornack -- In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis / Leslie C. Aiello, Nicola Bates, Tracey Joffe -- Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition / Kathleen R. Gibson, Duane Rumbaugh, Michael Beran -- The evolution of sex differences in primate brains / Dean Falk -- Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road? / Michel A. Hofman -- The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution / Todd M. Preuss -- Pheromonal communication and socialization / Brunetto Chiarelli -- Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times / Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, Michael S. Yuan -- Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains / Emmanuel Gilissen -- 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 -- The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution / Phillip V. Tobias -- Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction / Katerina Semendeferi -- Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans / Katrin Schäfer, Horst Seidler, Fred L. Bookstein, Hermann Prossinger, Dean Falk, Glenn Conroy -- Epilogue: the study of primate brain evolution. Where do we go from here? / Harry J. Jerison.
Prologue: Size matters and function counts / Stephen J. Gould -- Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? / Peter M. Kaskan, Barbara L. Finlay--Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic, David R. Kornack -- In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis / Leslie C. Aiello, Nicola Bates, Tracey Joffe -- Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition / Kathleen R. Gibson, Duane Rumbaugh, Michael Beran -- The evolution of sex differences in primate brains / Dean Falk -- Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road? / Michel A. Hofman -- The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution / Todd M. Preuss -- Pheromonal communication and socialization / Brunetto Chiarelli -- Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times / Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, Michael S. Yuan -- Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains / Emmanuel Gilissen -- 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 -- The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution / Phillip V. Tobias -- Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction / Katerina Semendeferi -- Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans / Katrin Sch(c)Þfer, Horst Seidler, Fred L. Bookstein, Hermann Prossinger, Dean Falk, Glenn Conroy -- Epilogue: the study of primate brain evolution. Where do we go from here? / Harry J. Jerison
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVII, 344 S
Ill., graph. Darst
24 cm
ISBN:052164271X
0-521-64271-X