Originally published in 1976, the object of this volume was to present a relatively up-to-date overview of what was known, what was suspected, and what remained to be discovered concerning the general question of the evolution of the vertebrate brain and behaviour, and to present a list of references for those who wanted to delve deeper into one or another aspect of the problem. Accordingly, it contains chapters by palaeontologists, sensory morphologists and physiologists, comparative neurologists and comparative psychologists. The chapters are arranged in a sequence loosely approximating the order in which the various animals, brain structures, or behaviour first appeared. Therefore, the chapters fall naturally into sections, each section directed to a group of vertebrates, beginning with those which have very remote common ancestry and progressing to those with more recent common ancestry with mankind.
Preface. Introduction.
1. Origin and Radiation of the Classes of
Poikilothermous Vertebrates Nicholas Hotton III
2. Vertebrate Olfaction Don
Tucker and James C. Smith
3. The Vertebrate Eye Mitchell Glickstein
4. Some
Comments on Visual Acuity and Its Relation to Eye Structure Mark A. Berkley
5. Origin and Evolution of the Ear of Vertebrates Ernest Glen Wever
6.
Comparative Hearing Function in the Vertebrates W.C. Stebbins
7. Neurology of
Anamniotic Vertebrates Sven O.E. Ebbesson and R. Glenn Northcutt
8. The
Forebrain of Reptiles and Mammals Ford F. Ebner
9. Vertebrate Learning:
Common Processes M.E. Bitterman and William T. Woodard
10. Vertebrate
Learning: Evolutionary Divergences Kenneth H. Brookshire
11. Issues in the
Comparative Psychology of Learning M.E. Bitterman
12. Later Mammal
Radiations Leonard B. Radinsky
13. Comments on Radinskys "Later Mammal
Radiations" Malcolm C. McKenna
14. Brain Evolution in Mammals: A Review of
Concepts, Problems, and Methods Wally Welker
15. Comparative Anatomy of the
Tetrapod Spinal Cord: Dorsal Root Connections J.M. Petras
16. Primate
Radiations and the Origin of Hominoids Elwyn L. Simons
17. Brain Evolution in
the Order Primates C.B.G. Campbell
18. Tool Use in Mammals J.M. Warren
19.
Primate Social Behavior: Pattern and Process William A. Mason. Author Index.
Subject Index.
R. B. Masterton, M. E. Bitterman, C. B. G. Campbell and Nicholas Hotton
