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Cortical Evolution in Primates
- What Primates Are, What Primates Were, and Why the Cortex Changed
Engelsk Hardback
Cortical Evolution in Primates
- What Primates Are, What Primates Were, and Why the Cortex Changed
Engelsk Hardback

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Cortical Evolution in Primates provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an interest in cortical evolution and primates. Discussions of both cortical evolution and primates often rely on terms and concepts unfamiliar to many neuroscientists, but such readers will have no need to look elsewhere to understand the text or figures in this book. As well as reviewing the pertinent terminology and taxonomy, Wise explores the palaeontology, adaptations, and paleoecology of primates. Through summarizing a neglected source of data, fossil primates, the book harnesses the power of comparative neuroanatomy to examine how cortical maps changed during private evolution, including nine proposals on why the cortex changed. Together, these topics inform a full understanding of cortical evolution in primates. Wise concludes that the cortex expanded more recently than most neuroscientists suspect, and it happened many times. Furthermore, cortical expansion occurred independently in several major primate lineages, as ancestral primates adapted to the ecosystems of their time and place. Natural selection favored the expansion of cortical areas with neural representations that provided a selective advantage to ancestral primates in those times and those places.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780192868398
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
019286839X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
21 dec 2023
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
254mm
Højde:
179mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
21 dec 2023
Forfatter(e):
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