(eBook) Digital Endocasts – From Skulls to Brains by Emiliano Bruner

This is the PDF eBook version for Digital Endocasts – From Skulls to Brains by Emiliano Bruner, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe

Table of Contents

Part I Endocasts.- Endocasting skulls.- The brain and the braincase.- Digital reconstruction of fossil endocasts.- Paleneurology and primates.- Dinos and birds paleoneurology.- Inferring cortical subdivisions based on skull morphology.- Part II Computed Morphometrics.- Landmarking brains.- Digital restoration of fossil brain morphology.- Endocranial integration in hominoid primates.- Endocasts and the evo-devo approach to study human brain evolution.- Endocast Network modeling.- Endocranial metabolism and vascular system.- Part III Brain and Evolution.- Frontal lobes evolution.- Parietal lobes evolution.- Temporal lobes evolution.- Occipital lobes evolution.- Cerebellum evolution.