Primate Brain Evolution: Methods and Concepts

Considerations of Homology and the Visual System.- Some Questions and Problems Related to Homology.- Reconstructing the Evolution of the Brain in Primates through the Use of Comparative Neurophysiological and Neuroanatomical Data.- Allometric Considerations.- Some Cautionary Notes on Making Inferences about Relative Brain Size.- Allometric Approaches to the Evolution of the Primate Nervous System.- The Relativity of Relative Brain Measures and Hominid Mosaic Evolution.- Allometry, Brain Size, Cortical Surface, and Convolutedness.- Ontogenetic Perspectives.- Encephalization and Obstetrics in Primates with Particular Reference to Human Evolution.- The Role of Brain Maturation in the Evolution of the Primates.- The Development of the Primate Pulvinar.- Approaches from Cytoarchitectonics.- Mosaic Evolution in the Primate Brain: Differences and Similarities in the Hominid Thalamus.- Brain Organization and Taxonomic Relationships in Insectivora and Primates.- Quantitative Cytoarchitectonics of the Cerebral Cortices of Several Prosimian Species.- Role of Architectonics and Connections in the Study of Primate Brain Evolution.- A Paleoneurological Perspective.- Mapping Fossil Endocasts.- Early Primate Brain Evolution.- A Study of Cerebral Vascular Evolution in Primates.- Asymmetries of the Brains and Skulls of Nonhuman Primates.- Theoretical Overviews.- Neurobiological Aspects in the Phylogenetic Acquisition of Speech.- On the Origin and Progressive Evolution of the Triune Brain.- List of Contributors.- Author Index.