From Fossils to Mind
- 1st Edition, Volume 275 - February 22, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Tanya Calvey, Alexandra de Sousa, Amélie Beaudet
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 0 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 0 8 - 7
From Fossils to Mind, Volume 275 in the Progress in Brain Research series, presents chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including What could our premammalian ancestors hea… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFrom Fossils to Mind, Volume 275 in the Progress in Brain Research series, presents chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including What could our premammalian ancestors hear, see, smell, and touch? A review of ten years of research about cynodont paleoneurology, Endocasts of ornithopod dinosaurs: anatomy and comparison, Adaptationism and Structuralism in Brain Evolution Research, Genomic approaches for tracing the evolution of brain ageing and neurodegenerative diseases, Investigating the Coevolution of Language and Tools in the Brain: An ALE Meta-analysis of Neural Activation During Syntactic Processing and Tool Use, and more.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Endocasts of ornithopod dinosaurs: Comparative anatomy
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Material
- 3: Methods
- 4: Results
- 5: Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2: At the root of the mammalian mind: The sensory organs, brain and behavior of pre-mammalian synapsids
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Sensory organs in mammalian ancestors: what could they smell, see, hear and feel?
- 3: Behavioral complexity
- 4: Conclusion: the evolution of the synapsid brain, behavior, and sensory organs, brain and behavior
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 3: Insights into brain evolution through the genotype-phenotype connection
- Abstract
- 1: Why is the genotype-phenotype connection important?
- 2: What has our field done thus far to elucidate the genotype-phenotype connection?
- 3: What can we do as researchers into the genotype-phenotype connection to advance the unsolved riddles of human evolution?
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 4: Coevolution of language and tools in the human brain: An ALE meta-analysis of neural activation during syntactic processing and tool use
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Results
- 4: Discussion
- References
- Chapter 5: Brain evolution and language: A comparative 3D analysis of Wernicke's area in extant and fossil hominids
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Materials and methods
- 3: Results
- 4: Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 6: Lateralized behaviors in living humans: Application in the context of hominin brain evolution
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Functional asymmetry of the human brain and lateralized behaviors
- 3: How to infer functional asymmetry of fossils hominins?
- 4: Prospective from anatomy to behavior: The paleobrain project
- 5: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 7: Evolutionary and genomic perspectives of brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Neurodegenerative diseases and brain aging at the macroscale
- 3: Neurobiology and genetics of aging and neurodegenerative diseases
- 4: Comparative neuropathology between human and nonhuman primates
- 5: Evolutionary hypotheses of aging and neurodegenerative diseases
- 6: Conclusion
- Supplementary material
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 8: Evolutionary history of hominin brain size and phylogenetic comparative methods
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Reconstructions of hominin brain evolution—An increasingly complicated picture
- 3: Limitations of phylogenetic approaches
- 4: Conclusion
- References
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 275
- Published: February 22, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323991070
- eBook ISBN: 9780323991087
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Tanya Calvey
Dr. Tanya Calvey has a background in evolutionary neurobiology and lectures morphological anatomy in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. Tanya’s current research is on the neuropsychopharmacology of ibogaine and substance use disorders in humans and animals. Her research team is multidisciplinary and her research is funded by the South African Medical Research Council, the South African National Research Foundation and the International Society for Neurochemistry.
Tanya is also actively involved in developing neuroscience research in Africa. She is the Secretary of the Southern African Neuroscience Society and the co-founder of the Wits Cortex Club.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Witwatersrand, South AfricaAd
Alexandra de Sousa
Dr. Alexandra A. de Sousa has a background in anthropology, human evolution, and comparative neuroanatomy. She is interested in the biological basis of behavior in general and the origin of the human mind in particular. She applies diverse interdisciplinary approaches to her research questions, which led her to found the European Network for Brain Evolution Research in 2010. Her research also applies evolutionary theory to understanding contemporary human behavior, sensation, and cognition, and its neural correlates. She joined Bath Spa University, UK, as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in 2015. She is currently a Visiting Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Research in Seattle, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Bath Spa University, UK;
University of Bath, UKAB
Amélie Beaudet
Dr Amélie Beaudet is a paleoanthropologist working on Plio-Pleistocene hominin paleobiology with a particular interest in the evolutionary and adaptive contexts from which the genus Homo emerged. She started my research on the African fossil record within the frame of my PhD at the University of Toulouse (France) in 2012 that focused on the study of nonhominin primates that coexisted with hominins during the Plio-Pleistocene transition in Africa. During her postdoctoral contract at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in 2016 funded by the Erasmus program AESOP+, she developed a particular interest in the hominin brain evolutionary history. Subsequently, she was granted funding from the Claude Leon Foundation and the Center of Excellence in Palaeosciences to study the fossil hominin assemblage from the site of Sterkfontein as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) from 2017 to 2020. She joined the University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 2020.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Human Origins, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UKRead From Fossils to Mind on ScienceDirect