Synopsis
Part I Evolution of the Brain.- 1 An overview of brain evolution: lobe-finned fish vs ray-finned fish.- 2 The Origins of the Bird Brain: Multiple Pulses of Cerebral Expansion in Evolution.- 3 The evolution of mammalian brains from early mammals to present-day primates.- 4 Developmental sequences predict multiple types of increased intra-connectivity in evolution: a comparative analysis of developmental timing, gene expression, neuron numbers, and diffusion MR tractography.- Part II Evolution of Cognition.- 5 The Evolution of Cognitive Brains in Non-mammals.- 6 Evolution of Cognitive Brains: Mammals.- 7 On the Matter of Mind: Neural Complexity and Functional Dynamics of the Human Brain.- 8 Behavioural, cognitive, and neuronal changes in the acquisition of tool use.- 9 Great ape social attention.- 10 Evolution of vocal communication: From animal calls to human speech.- 11 Integration Hypothesis: A Parallel Model of Language Development in Evolution.- Part III Evolution of Emotion.- 12 Evolution of the emotional brain.- 13 Evolutionary origin of empathy and inequality aversion.
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