Main description:

From Fossils to Mind, Volume 275 in the Progress in Brain Research series, presents chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including What could our premammalian ancestors hear, see, smell, and touch? A review of ten years of research about cynodont paleoneurology, Endocasts of ornithopod dinosaurs: anatomy and comparison, Adaptationism and Structuralism in Brain Evolution Research, Genomic approaches for tracing the evolution of brain ageing and neurodegenerative diseases, Investigating the Coevolution of Language and Tools in the Brain: An ALE Meta-analysis of Neural Activation During Syntactic Processing and Tool Use, and more.

Contents:

1. Endocasts of ornithopod dinosaurs: Comparative anatomy

2. At the root of the mammalian mind: The sensory organs, brain and behavior of pre-mammalian synapsids

3. Insights into brain evolution through the genotype-phenotype connection

4. Coevolution of language and tools in the human brain: An ALE meta-analysis of neural activation during syntactic processing and tool use

5. Brain evolution and language: A comparative 3D analysis of Wernicke's area in extant and fossil hominids

6. Lateralized behaviors in living humans: Application in the context of hominin brain evolution

7. Evolutionary and genomic perspectives of brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases

8. Evolutionary history of hominin brain size and phylogenetic comparative methods