The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution
- 1st Edition - June 22, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Nelson R Cabej
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 1 5 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 1 6 6 - 4
The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution provides readers with a substantial biological education on animal nervous systems and their role in the development, adapta… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution provides readers with a substantial biological education on animal nervous systems and their role in the development, adaptation, homeostasis, and evolution of species. The book begins by delving into the embryonic development of the brain and then discusses epigenetic information and neural activity post-birth. It then analyzes the inductive brain’s neural and brain control of such factors like myogenesis, bone development, sensory organs, metamorphosis in vertebrates and invertebrates, and wing development in insects. The book closes with an examination of phenotypic evolution in neural control, mechanisms, and drivers of animal brains.
The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution will offer evolutionary biologists, specifically those researching development, adaptation, and evolution of animals, a comprehensive text that covers a variety of valuable topics.
The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution will offer evolutionary biologists, specifically those researching development, adaptation, and evolution of animals, a comprehensive text that covers a variety of valuable topics.
- Presents the first book devoted to the inductive role of the brain in development, in adaptation, and in the evolution processes in animals
- Examines the central nervous system (CNS) from embryonic to adult life stages
- Provides detailed evidence to investigate the role of the CNS in molding animal morphology and life histories
Evolutionary biologists, specifically those researching development, adaptation, and evolution of animals
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- 1: Levels of organization and the integrated control
- 2: Where does the ICS reside in the animal body?
- 3: Nervous system in early embryonic development
- 4: Self-organization of the nervous system
- 5: Nervous system in organogenesis
- 6: Nervous system in evolution
- 7: Where does the information for evolution of metazoans come from?
- Chapter 1: Preneural stage of development
- Abstract
- 1: Parental cytoplasmic factors control the earliest stage of the embryonic development
- 2: Ordered deposition of parental factors in gametes
- 3: Maternal factors are deposited to specific regions of the oocyte via microtubules
- 4: On the possible role of the nervous system in the ordered deposition of parental cytoplasmic factors in gametes
- 5: The maternal-zygotic transition and the complementary roles of the maternal and zygotic expression in early development
- 6: Parental mRNAs regulate the formation of germ layers
- Chapter 2: Development of the central nervous system
- Abstract
- 1: Exhaustion of the parental epigenetic information, neurulation, and the phylotypic stage
- 2: Formation of the neural tube
- 3: Neuronal specification and proliferation
- 4: Neuronal migration
- 5: Neuronal maturation
- 6: Formation of neuronal connections: Synaptogenesis
- 7: Neural activity and establishment of neural circuits
- 8: Activity-dependent respecification of neurotransmitter phenotype
- 9: Establishment of phenotypic set points
- 10: On the nature and source of the spontaneous activity
- 11: The neural crest
- 12: The brain-neural crest synergy
- Chapter 3: The inductive brain in animal development
- Abstract
- The inductive brain in animal development
- 1: Somitogenesis
- 2: Myogenesis
- 3: Development of muscle tissue in vertebrates
- 4: Neural determination of arterial vessel patterning
- 5: Specification of dermal lineages
- 6: Neural control and regulation of stem cell proliferation
- 7: Metamorphosis
- 8: Development of endocrine glands
- 9: Sensory organs of the vertebrate head
- 10: Limb development
- 11: Heart
- 12: Development of airways
- 13: Development of the submandibular gland
- 14: Liver development
- 15: Kidney
- 16: Gonad development
- 17: Frontonasal morphogenesis
- Chapter 4: Brain involvement in phenotypic evolution
- Abstract
- 1: Environmental changes and animal evolution
- 2: Evolutionary importance of behavioral changes
- 3: The relationship between behavior and morphology: Is it correlative or causal?
- 4: Inheritance of environmentally triggered changes: Evolutionary changes
- 5: Role of the brain in the process of speciation
- 6: Neurocognitive mechanisms of reproductive isolation
- Chapter 5: Maintenance and change of phenotype: Inheritance of acquired traits
- Abstract
- 1: Maintenance of the normal physiological state
- 2: Maintenance of animal morphometry
- 3: The process of regeneration
- 4: Inherited adaptation to the changing environment
- 5: On the source and nature of the information for transgenerational plasticity
- 6: Inheritance of acquired traits in animals
- 7: Why the nervous system?
- 8: A tentative mechanism of emergence and inheritance of acquired traits
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 22, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 290
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323851541
- eBook ISBN: 9780323851664
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Nelson R Cabej
Nelson R. Cabej earned his PhD in biology at the University of Tirana, Albania, and currently serves as a researcher in the Department of Biology at the same university. His scientific career began with research in the fields of epizootiology, immunology and molecular biology at the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Tirana, Albania. He also previously taught general biology at the University of Tirana and William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, USA. He has published more than 50 scientific articles and 20 books in the fields of evolutionary biology, epigenetics, developmental biology and philosophy of biology, including 4 books with Elsevier: Building The Most Complex Structure On Earth (2013); Epigenetic Principles of Evolution, Second Edition (2018); Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion (2019); and The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution (2021).
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Department of Biology, University of Tirana, Tirana, AlbaniaRead The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution on ScienceDirect