The lives of the brain: human evolution and the organ of mind
Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us apart from the other apes and primates. And how this three-pound organ composed of water, fat, and protein turned a mammal...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us apart from the other apes and primates. And how this three-pound organ composed of water, fat, and protein turned a mammal species into the dominant animal on earth today is the story the author seeks to tell in this book. Adopting what he calls a bottom-up approach to the evolution of human behavior, the author considers the brain as a biological organ; a collection of genes, cells, and tissues that grows, eats, and ages, and is subject to the direct effects of natural selection and the phylogenetic constraints of its ancestry. An exploration of the evolution of this critical organ based on recent work in paleoanthropology, brain anatomy and neuroimaging, molecular genetics, life history theory, and related fields, this book shows us the brain as a product of the contexts in which it evolved : phylogenetic, somatic, genetic, ecological, demographic, and ultimately, cultural-linguistic. Throughout, the author focuses on the foundations of brain evolution rather than the evolution of behavior or cognition. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 338 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780674035348 |
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Autor: Allen, John S.
Jahr: 2009
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 The Human Brain in Brief 6
3 Brain Size 44
4 The Functional Evolution of the Brain 82
5 The Plastic Brain 120
6 The Molecular Evolution of the Brain 148
7 The Evolution of Feeding Behavior 177
8 The Aging Brain 202
9 Language and Brain Evolution 232
10 Optimism and the Evolution of the Brain 273
References 281
Acknowledgments 327
Index 329
Figures
2.1 Variation in normal adult human brains 8
2.2 The major lobes and sectors of the human brain 13
2.3 The major fissures and sulci of the human brain 18
2.4 Ten brains averaged into a common anatomical space 21
2.5 Distribution of primary and association cortex in the human
cerebrum 22
2.6 Brodmann s classic cytoarchitectural maps of the human
cerebrum 24
2.7 The human limbic system 29
2.8 Contrasting perspectives in evolutionary neuroscience 32
2.9 The white-matter fiber tracts running in the mid-sagittal plane 41
3.1 The cerebral rubicon 47
3.2 The fit of the brain within the skull 52
3.3 Three-dimensional CT scans of the cranial space of chimpanzee
and human skulls 56
3.4 Hominid phylogeny 59
3.5 Cranial capacities and EQs in various hominid species
across time 60
3.6 The shape of the endocranium 64
3.7 European endocasts from the latter part of the hominid fossil
record 65
X FIGURES
3.8 Encephalization quotients 68
3.9 Variability in Homo erectus cranial size 79
4.1 The human frontal lobe 100
4.2 The frontal and parietal lobes and the central sulcus 108
4.3 Functional reorganization of the primary visual cortex 111
4.4 The Taung child 113
4.5 The Taung endocast compared to a chimpanzee endocast 114
4.6 Endocast of an A. africanus specimen, Stw505 116
5.1 Broca s lesion 121
5.2 The corpus callosum 138
6.1 A microarray chip hybridization experiment 152
6.2 Children with microcephaly 170
6.3 Dopamine pathways in the human brain 171
7.1 Peters elephant nose fish 180
7.2 The energetic cost of various brains as a proportion of BMR 183
7.3 The relationship between brain and diet evolution 200
8.1 Synaptic density across the life span 203
8.2 Hofman s model 210
8.3 The ratio of gray matter to white matter over the life span 222
8.4 Older and younger brains 223
8.5 The relationship between the evolution of brain and
longevity 230
9.1 Perisylvian speech processing areas in the human brain 251
9.2 The planum temporale in humans and chimpanzees 256
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