Publication

2004-10-01 - Sinauer Associates

Language

English

Word Count

109,000 words, Guess

Page Count

436 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004021721
  • LibraryThing8138932
  • Goodreads783742

Classifications

  • LCCQP376.S825 2005

Description

Aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this textbook describes some of the basic principles affecting brain evolution. The author refers to data from a wide array of vertebrates while minimizing technical jargon. Particular attention has been paid to the ways in which changes in brain structure impact function and behavior. The volume concludes with a discussion on how mammal brains diverged from other brains and how Homo sapiens evolved a very large and special brain.

First Sentence

Late in January of 1898, roughly 40 years after Darwin published his Origin of Species, Professor Hermon Bumpus grasped a unique opportunity to test Darwin's "law" of natural selection (Bumpus, 1899).

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