Human brain evolution
Subtitle: the influence of freshwater and marine food resources
By: Stephen C. Cunnane and Kathlyn M. Stewart.
Contributors: Stewart, Kathlyn Moore.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470452684
Subjects: Brain -- Evolution; Human evolution; Cognition; Seafood; Nutritional anthropology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Macroevolutionary patterns, exaptation and emergence in the evolution of the human brain and cognition / Ian Tattersall; title: Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human brain evolution / Michael A. Crawford; title: Human brain evolution : a question of solving key nutritional and metabolic constraints on mammalian brain development / Stephen C. Cunnane; title: Metabolic and molecular aspects of the critical role of docosahexaenoic acid in human brain function / J. Thomas Brenna; title: Lessons from shore-based hunter-gatherer diets in East Africa / Frits A.J. Muskiet and Remko S. Kuipers; title: Thyroid hormone, iodine and human brain evolution / Sebastiano Venturi and Michel E. Bégin; title: Food for thought : the role of coastlines and aquatic resources in human evolution / Jon M. Erlandson; title: The case for exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins : implications for encephalisation / Kathlyn M. Stewart; title: Brain size in carnivoran mammals that forage at the land-water ecotone, with implications for the robust australopithecines (paranthropus) / Alan B. Shabel; title: Coastal diet, encephalisation and innovative behaviours in the late middle stone age of southern africa / John Parkington.