Evolutionary anatomy of the primate cerebral cortex
By: edited by Dean Falk & Kathleen R. Gibson.
Contributors: Falk, Dean.; Gibson, Kathleen Rita.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Cerebral cortex -- Anatomy; Cerebral cortex -- Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Size matters and function counts / Stephen J. Gould; title: Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? / Peter M. Kaskan, Barbara L. Finlay; title: Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic, David R. Kornack; title: In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis / Leslie C. Aiello, Nicola Bates, Tracey Joffe; title: Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition / Kathleen R. Gibson, Duane Rumbaugh, Michael Beran; title: The evolution of sex differences in primate brains / Dean Falk; title: Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road? / Michel A. Hofman; title: The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution / Todd M. Preuss; title: Pheromonal communication and socialization / Brunetto Chiarelli; title: 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; title: Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains / Emmanuel Gilissen; title: 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; title: The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution / Phillip V. Tobias; title: Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction / Katerina Semendeferi; title: Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans / Katrin Schäfer, Horst Seidler, Fred L. Bookstein, Hermann Prossinger, Dean Falk, Glenn Conroy; title: Epilogue: the study of primate brain evolution. Where do we go from here? / Harry J. Jerison.