Evolutionary Neuroscience - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0123750806 ISBN 13 : 9780123750808

Editeur : Academic Press Inc, 2009

Synopsis

All biology only makes sense when seen in the light of evolution, and this is especially true for the nervous system. To understand any nervous system, we need to know how they vary and how this variation emerged in evolution. This volume brings together 43 fundamental chapters about nervous system evolution in an affordable single volume reference selected by the editor from two major reference works published by Academic Press - Evolution of Nervous Systems, a comprehensive reference and The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. The authors outline the changes in brain and nervous system organization that occurred from first vertebrates to present day fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals, and especially primates, including humans. The basic principles of brain evolution are discussed, as well as mechanisms of change, which involved gene expression and altered the courses of embryonic development.

Impact - All biologists and neuroscientists have to be interested in evolution, and the study of the evolution of the nervous system is arguably among the most challenging and interesting problems in science.

Scope - chapters cover topics ranging from genetic control of development in invertebrates to human cognition, carefully selected by one of the great evolutionary neuroscientists, Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt University.

Expertise - The best researchers in the field provide their conclusions in the context of the latest experimental results.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jon H. Kaas is currently Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD training in comparative studies of forebrain organization in mammals in the laboratory of I. T. Diamond at Duke University, and postdoctoral training studying cortical organization in the comparative neurophysiology laboratory of C. N. Woolsey at the University of Wisconsin. His research has focused on determining the organizations of sensory and motor systems in mammals, especially in primates, with an effort to understand the evolution of the forebrain from early mammals to present-day humans. He has published over 250 research papers and 150 reviews. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the La Jolla Group for Explaining the Origin of Humans.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0123750806
• ISBN 13: 9780123750808
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 1038
• Éditeur: Kaas Jon H.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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