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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 | |