Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex

by Edited by Dean Falk , Kathleen R. Gibson

• ISBN13: 9780521642712
• ISBN10: 052164271X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Studies of brain evolution have moved rapidly in recent years, building on the pioneering research of Harry J. Jerison. This book provides state-of-the-art reviews of primate (including human) brain evolution. The volume is divided into two sections, the first offers new perspectives on the developmental, physiological, dietary, and behavioral correlates of brain enlargement. However, it has long been recognized that brains do not merely enlarge globally as they evolve, but that their cortical and internal organization also changes in a process known as reorganization. Species-specific adaptations therefore have neurological substrates that depend on more than just overall brain size. The second section explores these neurological underpinnings for the senses, adaptations, and cognitive abilities that are important for primates. With a prologue by Stephen J. Gould and an epilogue by Harry J. Jerison, this is an important new reference work for all those working on primate brain evolution.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xii
Prologue Size matters and function counts	xiii
Stephen Jay Gould
Part I The evolution of brain size
Introduction to Part I	3	(11)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big?	14	(16)
Peter M. Kaskan
Barbara L. Finlay
Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology	30	(27)
Pasko Rakic
David R. Kornack
In defense of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis	57	(22)
Leslie C. Aiello
Nicola Bates
Tracey Joffe
Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition	79	(19)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Duane Rumbaugh
Michael Beran
The evolution of sex differences in primate brains	98	(15)
Dean Falk
Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road?	113	(25)
Michel A. Hofman
Part II Neurological substrates of species-specific adaptations
Introduction to Part II	131	(7)
Dean Falk
The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution	138	(27)
Todd M. Preuss
Pheromonal communication and socialization	165	(12)
Brunetto Chiarelli
Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times	177	(10)
Ralph L. Holloway
Douglas C. Broadfield
Michael S. Yuan
Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains	187	(29)
Emmanuel Gillissen
Language areas of the hominoid brain: a dynamic communicative shift on the upper east side planum	216	(25)
Patrick J. Gannon
Nancy M. Kheck
Patrick R. Hof
The promise and the peril in hominin brain evolution	241	(16)
Phillip V. Tobias
Advances in the study of hominoid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction	257	(33)
Katerina Semendeferi
Exo-and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans	290	(15)
Katrin Schafer
Horst Seidler
Fred L. Bookstein
Hermann Prossinger
Dean Falk
Glenn Conroy
Epilogue The study of primate brain evolution: where do we go from here?	305	(33)
Harry J. Jerison
Index	338