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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... correlation with behavioral capacity in different animals is supported by significant evidence is the total mass of tissue, or rather, the index of cephalization, measured by the ratio of brain to body weight, which seems to represent ...
... correlation with behavioral capacity in different animals is supported by significant evidence is the total mass of tissue, or rather, the index of cephalization, measured by the ratio of brain to body weight, which seems to represent ...
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... correlate of “behavioral capacity,” as Lashley put it, and to see how that capacity has changed during the history of the vertebrates. This is as close as one is likely to come to a direct analysis of the evolution of mind." When a ...
... correlate of “behavioral capacity,” as Lashley put it, and to see how that capacity has changed during the history of the vertebrates. This is as close as one is likely to come to a direct analysis of the evolution of mind." When a ...
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... correlated with intelligence. The procedure used here will enable us to perform a retrospective evolutionary “experiment” in which the effect of a critical selection pressure (the presence of progressive predators) on relative brain ...
... correlated with intelligence. The procedure used here will enable us to perform a retrospective evolutionary “experiment” in which the effect of a critical selection pressure (the presence of progressive predators) on relative brain ...
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... correlations with paleontological data. A major purpose of the analysis in this work is to provide the right kind of paleontological data to be related to differences in intelligent behavior among living species. The result of such an ...
... correlations with paleontological data. A major purpose of the analysis in this work is to provide the right kind of paleontological data to be related to differences in intelligent behavior among living species. The result of such an ...
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... correlation between structure and function in nervous systems was beginning to be appreciated from the discovery of the sensory role of the dorsal horn and the motor role of the ventral horn of the spinal cord. At the level of the brain ...
... correlation between structure and function in nervous systems was beginning to be appreciated from the discovery of the sensory role of the dorsal horn and the motor role of the ventral horn of the spinal cord. At the level of the brain ...
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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