Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex

Preface Prologue Stephen J. Gould Introduction to Part I Kathleen Gibson Part I. The Evolution of Brain Size: 1. Encephalization and its developmental structure: how many ways can a brain get big? Peter M. Kaskan and Barbara L. Finlay 2. Neocortical expansion and elaboration during primate evolution: a view from neuroembryology Pasko Rakic and David R. Kornack 3. In defense of the expensive tissue hypothesis Leslie C. Aiello, Nicola Bates and Tracey Joffe 4. Bigger is better: primate brain size in relationship to cognition Kathleen Gibson, Duane Rumbaugh and Michael Beran 5. The evolution of sex differences in primate brains Dean Falk 6. Brain evolution in hominids: are we at the end of the road? Michel A. Hofman Introduction to Part II Dean Falk Part II. Neurological Substrates of Species-Specific Adaptations: 7. The discovery of cerebral diversity: an unwelcome scientific revolution Todd M. Preuss 8. Pheromonal communication and socialization Brunetto Chiarelli 9. Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield and Michael S. Yuan 10. Structural symmetries and asymmetries in human and chimpanzee brains Emmanuel Gilissen 11. Language areas of the hominid brain: a dynamic communicative shift on the upper east side planum Patrick J. Gannon, Nancy M. Kheck and Patrick R. Hof 12. The promise and the peril in hominid brain evolution Phillip V. Tobias 13. Advances in the study of hominid brain evolution: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3-D reconstruction Katerina Semendeferi 14. Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans Katrin Schafer, Horst Seidler, Fred L. Bookstein, Hermann Prossinger, Dean Falk and Glenn Conroy Epilogue: the study of primate brain evolution: where do we go from here? Harry Jerison.