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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... volume, and since many of the data that are discussed are derived from these gross measures, much of Chapter 3 is devoted to this issue. The orderliness of the relationship between microscopic and gross structures of the brain does not ...
... volume, and since many of the data that are discussed are derived from these gross measures, much of Chapter 3 is devoted to this issue. The orderliness of the relationship between microscopic and gross structures of the brain does not ...
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... volume of their brain reduced in relation to the volume of their head and to the overall dimensions of their body [Lartet, 1868, p. 1120]. Perhaps independently, but certainly soon afterward, Marsh (1874) recognized the same phenomenon ...
... volume of their brain reduced in relation to the volume of their head and to the overall dimensions of their body [Lartet, 1868, p. 1120]. Perhaps independently, but certainly soon afterward, Marsh (1874) recognized the same phenomenon ...
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... volume. It is for this reason that Lashley's surprising statement, quoted at the outset of this chapter, can be true. And it is for this reason that I approach the evolution of intelligence by analyzing the evolution of the brain, in ...
... volume. It is for this reason that Lashley's surprising statement, quoted at the outset of this chapter, can be true. And it is for this reason that I approach the evolution of intelligence by analyzing the evolution of the brain, in ...
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... (volume = 0.83 ml); middle, endocast from skull with cartilagenous wall of cranium intact (volume = 0.96 ml); bottom, brain as dissected (volume = 0.51 ml), olfactory bulbs and tract twisted. Note that the midbrain (optic lobes) would be ...
... (volume = 0.83 ml); middle, endocast from skull with cartilagenous wall of cranium intact (volume = 0.96 ml); bottom, brain as dissected (volume = 0.51 ml), olfactory bulbs and tract twisted. Note that the midbrain (optic lobes) would be ...
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... volume of the endocast. How good is that estimate? Quantitative comparisons are impressive and suggest that weight (grams) and volume (milliliters) should be used interchangeably. For example, the domestic cat in Fig. 2.2 had an ...
... volume of the endocast. How good is that estimate? Quantitative comparisons are impressive and suggest that weight (grams) and volume (milliliters) should be used interchangeably. For example, the domestic cat in Fig. 2.2 had an ...
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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