PDF-(EBOOK)-Principles of Brain Evolution

Brain evolution is a complex weave of species similarities and differences bound by diverse rules or principles This book is a detailed examination of these principles using data from a wide array of vertebrates but minimizing technical details and terminology It is written for advancedundergraduates graduate students and more senior scientists who already know something about the brain but want a deeper understanding of how diverse brains evolvedThe book opens with a brief history of evolutionary neuroscience then introduces the various groups of vertebrates and their major brain regions The core of the text explores what aspects of brain organization are conserved across the vertebrates how brains and bodies changed in size asvertebrates evolved how individual brain regions tend to increase or decrease in size how regions can become structurally more or less complex and how neuronal circuitry evolves A central theme emerges from these chaptersthat evolutionary changes in brain size tend to correlate with manyother aspects of brain structure and function including the proportional size of individual brain regions their complexity and their neuronal connections To explain these correlations the book delves into rules of brain development and asks how changes in brain structure impact function andbehavior The two penultimate chapters demonstrate the application of these rules focusing on how mammal brains diverged from other brains and how Homo sapiens evolved a very large and special brain. 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Results of the comparison were collected at a P-value < 0.005 at the voxelBrain abnormalities maps didn¶t show any statistical negative As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I\'ll just assimilate Howard Bloom\'s accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today\'s preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a complex adaptive system, a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a grand vision, says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why. The human brain is astonishingly different from the brain of any other animal. Written like a detective story, this book brings together the wealth of new research from neurobiology, genetics, and paleontology to explain the runaway evolution of the human brain. Illus. This interdisciplinary book interprets early human evolution in the context of the local ecology and specific habitats. It assesses carefully the possible role of climate change in driving early human evolution. Bringing an ecological and biogeographic perspective to recent fossil finds, the book provides a new synthesis of ideas on hominid evolution. It will be a valuable resource for researchers in physical, biological, or paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology or biogeography. This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man\'s newfound access to other people\'s thoughts and emotions.Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain\'s development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human. Donald D. Clayton\'s Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis remains the standard work on the subject, a popular textbook for students in astronomy and astrophysics and a rich sourcebook for researchers. The basic principles of physics as they apply to the origin and evolution of stars and physical processes of the stellar interior are thoroughly and systematically set out. Clayton\'s new preface, which includes commentary and selected references to the recent literature, reviews the most important research carried out since the book\'s original publication in 1968. Some praise for the previous edition:Besides being well-written, it presents some fresh perspectives . . . Well-designed . . . for students interested in astronomy and space, planetary, and earth sciences . . . It can also provide a readable introduction to the subject for scientists working in related areas . . .-Physics TodayDesigned for beginners in stellar physics, this book introduces the fundamentals of stellar structure and evolution. In emphasizing the general picture of the life cycles of stars and the physics responsible, Stellar Interiors also allows prospective specialists a taste of many of the detailed aspects of this mature discipline. The authors develop a solid foundation in important theory that is often overlooked in typical courses, yet steer clear of extraneous intensive mathematics and physics. The new edition has been updated throughout to incorporate new observational and theoretical insights, and the programs have been updated to modern standards.