Table of Contents
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 Copyrighted Material
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