| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Cortical Evolution in Primates -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Reference figure -- List of abbreviations: text -- List of abbreviations: figures -- Epigraph -- Part I. What primates are -- 1. Topics tackled -- Overview -- Why? -- What? -- When? -- Why now? -- Why not? -- Why not now? -- Why try? -- Chapter summary -- References -- 2. Compact cladistics -- Overview -- Introduction -- Taxing terminology -- Homology, homoplasy, and analogy -- Trees and scales -- Old and new areas -- Chapter summary -- References -- 3. Present primates -- Overview |
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Introduction -- Taxing taxonomy -- Principal primate clades -- Strepsirrhines -- Haplorhines -- Catarrhines -- Chapter summary -- To "the" or not to "the" -- References -- Part II. What primates were -- 4. Prolog to paleontology -- Overview -- Introduction -- The dating scene -- Bodies from bones -- Focus on forests -- Chapter summary -- References -- 5. Arboreal adaptations -- Overview -- Introduction -- Primates true and stem -- Into the trees -- Chapter summary -- Cortical considerations -- References -- 6. Primate paleoecology -- Overview -- Introduction -- Paleocene plesiadapiforms |
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Eocene Euprimates -- Oligocene openings and Miocene monkeys -- Miocene modifications and Plio-Pleistocene primates -- Chapter summary -- References -- Part III. What primate cortex was -- 7. Great grades of gray -- Overview -- Introduction -- Measures and misconceptions -- Grades and clades -- Eocene expansions -- Chapter summary -- References -- 8. Greater grades of gray -- Overview -- Introduction -- Miocene monkeys and apes -- Plio-Pleistocene hominins -- Body or brain? -- Chapter summary -- References -- 9. Tempo and temperature -- Overview -- Introduction -- Time travel |
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Cooling and crisis -- Corticalization and speciation -- Cortex and corpus -- Chapter summary -- References -- 10. Other orders -- Overview -- Introduction -- Pride of place -- The origin of mammals -- Brain expansion -- Chapter summary -- Parietofrontia -- References -- Part IV. What primate cortex is -- 11. Cortical comparisons -- Overview -- Introduction -- A Declaration of Independence -- Flying primates, feathered apes -- Crucial comparisons -- Misconceptions: minor and massive -- Chapter summary -- References -- 12. Suites of specializations -- Overview -- Introduction -- From tip to toe |
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Suite success -- Chapter summary -- References -- 13. Anthropoid adaptations -- Overview -- Introduction -- The big chill -- Frontal-field phylogeny -- Changes at the top -- Sights and sounds on the side -- Guilt by association -- Chapter summary -- References -- 14. Human hemispheres -- Overview -- Introduction -- Whole hemispheres -- Area analysis -- Sensational size -- Temporal tracts -- Allocortical alterations -- Cortex and chromosomes -- Chapter summary -- References -- Part V. Why the cortex changed -- 15. Eocene expansions -- Overview -- Introduction -- What's new is old |
| Summary |
This text provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an interest in cortical evolution and primates |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2024 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
Primates -- Evolution.
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Cerebral cortex -- Evolution
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Primates -- Evolution
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Biology, life sciences.
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Science.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191964336 |
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0191964336 |
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