Evolutionary anatomy of the primate cerebral cortex /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Falk, Dean, Gibson, Kathleen Rita
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Encephalization and its developmental structure : how many ways can a brain get big?
  • Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution : a view from neuroembryology
  • In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis
  • Bigger is better : primate brain size in relationship to cognition
  • The evolution of sex differences in primate brains
  • Brain evolution in hominids : are we at the end of the road?
  • The discovery of cerebral diversity : an unwelcome scientific revolution
  • Pheromonal communication and socialization
  • Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex : newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times
  • Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains
  • Language areas of the hominoid brain : a dynamic communicative shift on the upper east side planum
  • The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution
  • Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution : magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction
  • Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans