The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience

List of Contributors vii
 
Preface ix
 
Acknowledgments xiii
 
1 The Brain Evolved to Guide Action 1
Michael Anderson and Anthony Chemero
 
2 The Evolution of Evolutionary Neuroscience 21
Suzana Herculano?]Houzel
 
3 Approaches to the Study of Brain Evolution 38
Jon H. Kaas
 
4 Intraneuronal Computation: Charting the Signaling Pathways of the Neuron 49
Jorge Navarro, Raquel del Moral, and Pedro C. Marijuán
 
5 The Evolution of Neurons 88
Robert W. Meech
 
6 The First Nervous System 125
Nadia Riebli and Heinrich Reichert
 
7 Fundamental Constraints on the Evolution of Neurons 153
A. Aldo Faisal and Ali Neishabouri
 
8 The Central Nervous System of Invertebrates 173
Volker Hartenstein
 
9 Nervous System Architecture in Vertebrates 236
Mario F. Wullimann
 
10 Neurotransmission--Evolving Systems 279
Michel Anctil
 
11 Neural Development in Invertebrates 307
Roger P. Croll
 
12 Forebrain Development in Vertebrates: The Evolutionary Role of Secondary Organizers 350
Luis Puelles
 
13 Brain Evolution and Development: Allometry of the Brain and Arealization of the Cortex 388
Diarmuid J. Cahalane and Barbara L. Finlay
 
14 Comparative Aspects of Learning and Memory 410
Michael Koch
 
15 Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity 422
Rayna M. Harris, Lauren A. O'Connell, and Hans A. Hofmann
 
16 Neural Mechanisms of Communication 444
Julia Sliwa, Daniel Y. Takahashi, and Stephen V. Shepherd
 
17 Social Coordination: From Ants to Apes 478
Anne Böckler, Anna Wilkinson, Ludwig Huber, and Natalie Sebanz
 
18 Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution 495
Sally E. Street and Kevin N. Laland
 
19 Reading Other Minds 514
Juliane Kaminski
 
Index 526

Stephen Shepherd is a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Neural Systems, Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and was previously Chair of the Princeton University Postdoctoral Association. He has published his work in diverse journals including Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology and Animal Cognition, and has also contributed chapters to a several books.