Principles of Brain Evolution
Principles of Brain Evolution Principles of Brain Evolution OTHER ARTICLES Brain evolution is a complex weave of species similarities and differences, bound by diverse rules or principles. This book is a detailed examination of these principles, using data from a wide array of vertebrates but minimizing technical details and terminology. It is written for advancedundergraduates, graduate students, and more senior scientists who already know something about the brain, but want a deeper understanding of how diverse brains evolved.The book opens with a brief history of evolutionary neuroscience, then introduces the various groups of vertebrates and their major brain regions. The core of the text explores: what aspects of brain organization are conserved across the vertebrates how brains and bodies changed in size asvertebrates evolved how individual brain regions tend to increase or decrease in size how regions can become structurally more (or less) complex and how neuronal circuitr...