Evolution of The Brain and IntelligenceElsevier, 02.12.2012 - 496 Seiten Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence covers the general principles of behavior and brain function. The book is divided into four parts encompassing 17 chapters that emphasize the implications of the history of the brain for the evolution of behavior in vertebrates. The introductory chapter covers the studies of animal behavior and their implications about the nature of the animal’s world. The following chapters emphasize methodological issues and the meanings of brain indices and brain size, as well as the general anatomy of the brain. Other chapters discuss the history of the brain in the major vertebrate groups that were known about 300 million years ago to determine the fate of these early vertebrate groups. Discussions on broad trends in evolution and their implications for the evolution of intelligence are also included. Substantive matter on the brains, bodies, and associated mechanisms of behavior of vertebrates are covered in the remaining chapters of the book, with an emphasis on evolution “above the species level . This book is of value to anthropologists, behavioral scientists, zoologists, paleontologists, and neurosciences students. |
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... Eocene times, relatively early in the history of the equids, perhaps 50 m.y. ago. At that time body size and other skeletal features were relatively stable. During the later evolution of the horse lineage, when the equids became more ...
... Eocene times, relatively early in the history of the equids, perhaps 50 m.y. ago. At that time body size and other skeletal features were relatively stable. During the later evolution of the horse lineage, when the equids became more ...
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... Eocene, and Oligocene, and a Neogene epoch, which includes the Miocene and Pliocene, and for some purposes (see p. 323) the Pleistocene. Table 2.2 Cenozoic Time Scalest Time Evernden Suggested radiometric in. Table 2.1.
... Eocene, and Oligocene, and a Neogene epoch, which includes the Miocene and Pliocene, and for some purposes (see p. 323) the Pleistocene. Table 2.2 Cenozoic Time Scalest Time Evernden Suggested radiometric in. Table 2.1.
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... Eocene : - (52+ 2)- –(53) – Lower Lower Ypresian –(54) —T (53.5) 55 – Lower H-(55) - q) U g 5 pper Q) Upper | Thanetian - (58+ 2) 3 –(58.5)– # - - - - - # -(58.5) QD (60) 60 (60) Paleocene Paleocene T: ~ F Montian S. S Q- Lower Q. Lower ...
... Eocene : - (52+ 2)- –(53) – Lower Lower Ypresian –(54) —T (53.5) 55 – Lower H-(55) - q) U g 5 pper Q) Upper | Thanetian - (58+ 2) 3 –(58.5)– # - - - - - # -(58.5) QD (60) 60 (60) Paleocene Paleocene T: ~ F Montian S. S Q- Lower Q. Lower ...
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... Eocene fauna with an Oligocene fauna (Jerison, 1961). For such comparisons errors in body size tend to counterbalance one another as one applies an approach like von Bonin's (1937) to the description of relative brain size for all the ...
... Eocene fauna with an Oligocene fauna (Jerison, 1961). For such comparisons errors in body size tend to counterbalance one another as one applies an approach like von Bonin's (1937) to the description of relative brain size for all the ...
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... Eocene mammals and the opossum (Jerison, 1961) and was retained in spite of the possibility that the multiplier might be slightly too high. The first hypothesis, despite its failure to be associated with a direct empirical result, is a ...
... Eocene mammals and the opossum (Jerison, 1961) and was retained in spite of the possibility that the multiplier might be slightly too high. The first hypothesis, despite its failure to be associated with a direct empirical result, is a ...
Inhalt
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The Basic Vertebrate Radiation | 97 |
Brain Enlargement and the Basic Vertebrate Radiation | 173 |
Progressive Evolution of the Brain | 283 |
Bibliography | 435 |
Wirzs Analysis of Relative Size of Parts of the Brain | 457 |
Statistical Tests on Mammalian Data | 462 |
Foramen Magnum the Size Factor and Brain Size | 466 |
Index | 471 |
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adaptive radiation adaptive zone allometric amphibians analysis animals Archaeopteryx archaic ungulates assemblage auditory australopithecines behavior birds body length body weight brain and body brain evolution brain weight capacity carnivores cells Cenozoic cerebellum Chapter compared condylarths considered convex polygons correlation cortical cranial creodonts discussed dorsal earliest early Edinger encephalization quotient endocast endocranial cavity enlarged brains Eocene estimate evidence evolutionary evolved forebrain fossil function gross brain groups hindbrain Holarctic hominids indicated insectivores Jerison larger lateral view living mammals living species lower vertebrates m.y. ago mammalian mammals measure medulla Mesozoic midbrain Neogene Neotropical nerves neural neurons niches olfactory bulbs Oligocene optic lobes Paleogene pattern perissodactyls Pleistocene present primates probably prosimians pterosaurs Ptilodus quantitative Radinsky reconstructions relationship relative brain reptiles reptilian result Romer sample selection pressures sensory similar skull small-brained specimens structures Table Tertiary tion tissue Triconodon vertebrates volume