Bookedited by Stephen V. Shepherd.
Contents:
1. The brain evolved to guide action
2. The evolution of evolutionary neuroscience
3. Approaches to the study of brain evolution
4. Intraneuronal computation: charting the signaling pathways of the neuron
5. The evolution of neurons
6. The first nervous system
7. Fundamental constraints on the evolution of neurons
8. The central nervous system of invertebrates
9. Nervous system architecture in vertebrates
10. Neurotransmission, evolving systems
11. Neural development in invertebrates
12. Forebrain development in vertebrates: the evolutionary role of secondary organizers
13. Brain evoluation and development: allometry of the of the brain and arealization of the cortex
14. Comparative aspects of learning and memory
15. Brain evolution, development, and plasticity
16. Neural mechanisms of communication
17. Social corrdination: from ants to apes
18. Social learning, intelligence, and brain evolution
19. Reading other minds
Index.