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Evolutionary Neuroscience: This Book's Scope and Ambition | |
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The Book's Scope and Major Themes | |
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Philosophical Preamble | |
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A History of Comparative Neurobiology | |
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The Birth of Comparative Neuroanatomy | |
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Darwin's Time: The Owen-Huxley Debate | |
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The Era of Comparative Cytoarchitectonics | |
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Comparative Hodology and Histochemistry | |
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The Rise of Neurocladistics | |
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The Rejuvenation of Comparative Neuroembryology | |
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Conclusions | |
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Conservation in Vertebrate Brains | |
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A "Who's Who" of Vertebrates | |
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Comparing Adult Brains | |
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Adult brain regions | |
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Adult cell types | |
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Neuron-typical molecules | |
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Comparing Embryonic Brains | |
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The neuromeric model | |
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Criticisms of the neuromeric model | |
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Mapping Embryos onto Adults | |
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Conclusions | |
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Evolutionary Changes in Overall Brain Size | |
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Changes in Relative Brain Size | |
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Mechanisms of brain-body scaling | |
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Functional Correlates of Relative Brain Size | |
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Changes in Absolute Brain Size | |
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Constraints and Compromises | |
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Conclusions | |
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Evolutionary Changes in Brain Region Size | |
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Concerted versus Mosaic Evolution | |
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Concerted evolution | |
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Mosaic evolution | |
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Toward a synthesis | |
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Functional Correlates of Brain Region Size | |
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The principle of proper mass | |
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Absolute size and functional capacity | |
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Proportional size and influence | |
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Relative size and adaptation | |
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Synthesis: The avian hippocampus | |
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Conclusions | |
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Evolutionary Changes in Brain Region Structure | |
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Homology and Novelty | |
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Phylogenetic Conversion: Lamination | |
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Phylogenetic Proliferation: Segregation | |
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Phylogenetic Proliferation: Addition | |
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Conclusions | |
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Evolution of Neuronal Connectivity | |
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Epigenetic Population Matching and Cascades | |
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The Parcellation Hypothesis | |
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Connectional Invasion and its Consequences | |
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General Principles of Network Design | |
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Synthesis and Conclusions | |
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What's Special about Mammal Brains? | |
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Early Mammals and their Brains | |
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The Phylogenetic History of Neocortex | |
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Beyond the Neocortex | |
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Conclusions | |
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What's Special about Human Brains? | |
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Primate Behavior and Overall Brain Size | |
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Evolutionary Changes in Primate Brain Organization | |
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Hominin Behavior and Overall Brain Size | |
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Evolutionary Changes in Hominin Brain Organization | |
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Conclusions | |
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Reflections and Prospect | |
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Explanatory Strategies in Evolutionary Neuroscience | |
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Steps Toward Synthesis | |
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Absolute and Relative Brain Size | |
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Conclusions | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |