Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

• Main Authors: Aboitiz, Francisco (Author), Montiel, Juan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 193
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

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Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Evolution of the vertebrate nervous system and the telencephalon
• Animal phylogenetic relationships
• The origin of vertebrates
• Evolution of the telencephalon in vertebrates
• Origin of the mammalian brain
• The first mammals
• Origins of the mammalian neocortex: hypotheses on homology
• Embryological evidence
• The olfactory-hippocampal hypothesis
• Origin of neocortical lamination
• Expansion of the neocortex
• Discussion
• An overview
• Issues with evolutionary theory
• Final comments
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Subject index.