Striedter/Principles of Brain Evolution: BBS Multiple Book Review

Tue Jun 6 06:52:25 EDT 2006

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           BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW - CALL FOR COMMENTATORS
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Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS).

 PRECIS OF: Principles of Brain Evolution

 AUTHOR: Georg F. Striedter

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                    *** BOOK PRECIS INFORMATION ***
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PRECIS OF: Principles of Brain Evolution

Author: Georg F. Striedter

ABSTRACT: Brain evolution is a complex weave of species similarities and
differences, bound by diverse rules and principles. This book is a
detailed examination of these principles, using data from a wide array of
vertebrates but minimizing technical details and terminology. It is
written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and more senior
scientists who already know something about the brain, but want a
deeper understanding of how diverse brains evolved. The books central
theme is that evolutionary changes in absolute brain size tend to
correlate with many other aspects of brain structure and function,
including the proportional size of individual brain regions, their
complexity, and their neuronal connections. To explain these
correlations, the book delves into rules of brain development and asks
how changes in brain structure impact function and behavior. Two chapters
focus specifically on how mammal brains diverged from other brains and
how Homo sapiens evolved a very large and special brain.

KEYWORDS: Neocortex, Development, Homology, Parcellation, Mammal,
Primate, Lamination, Cladistics, Hippocampus, Basal Ganglia, Neuromere

PRECIS TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Striedter-01132005/Referees

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                      SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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(1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review

    In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able
    to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our
    limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make
    it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per
    year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
    biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
    would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.

    (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
    basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
    indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
    nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
    potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
    impact!).

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