| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 715 pages) : illustrations |
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Wiley SCELC e-books
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| Contents |
Evolution and variation -- Neurons and sensory receptors -- The vertebrate central nervous system -- Vertebrate phylogeny and diversity in brain organization -- Evolution and adaptation of the brain, behavior, and intelligence -- Theories of brain evolution -- Overview of spinal cord and hindbrain -- The spinal cord -- Segmental organization of the head, brain, and cranial nerves -- Functional organization of the cranial nerves -- Sensory cranial nerves of the brainstem -- Motor cranial nerves -- The reticular formation -- The cerebellum -- Overview of the midbrain -- Isthmus -- Tegmentum and tori -- Optic tectum -- Overview of the forebrain -- Pretectum, accessory optic system, and migrated posterior tuberculum -- Epithalamus -- Dorsal thalamus -- The visceral brain : the hypothalamus and the autonomic nervous system -- Basal telencephalon -- Nonlimbic pallium -- Visual forebrain in amniotes -- Somatosensory and motor forebrain in amniotes -- Auditory and vocal forebrain in amniotes -- Terminal nerve and olfactory forebrain -- Limbic telencephalon -- Evolution of brains : a bilaterian view |
| Summary |
Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy: Evolution and Adaptation, Second EditionAnn B. Butler and William HodosThe Second Edition of this landmark text presents a broad survey of comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy at the introductory level, representing a unique contribution to the field of evolutionary neurobiology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Central Nervous System -- anatomy & histology.
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Adaptation, Biological.
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Anatomy, Comparative.
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Biological Evolution.
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Vertebrates -- anatomy & histology.
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Anatomy, Comparative.
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Nervous system -- Adaptation.
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Nervous system -- Evolution.
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Neuroanatomy.
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Vertebrates -- Anatomy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hodos, William.
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| LC no. |
2005282020 |
| ISBN |
0471733830 |
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0471733849 |
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6610277435 |
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9780471733836 |
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9780471733843 |
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9786610277438 |
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