From Fossils to Mind

From Fossils to Mind presents chapters on a variety of topics dealing with human and hominin brain evolution.

Introduction / Tanya Calvey
1. Endocasts of ornithopod dinosaurs: anatomy and comparison / Pascaline Lauters
2. What could our premammalian ancestors hear, see, smell, and touch? A review of ten years of research about cynodont palaeoneurology / Julien Benoit, Paul Manger, Kathleen DOLLMAN and Roger Smith
3. Insights into brain evolution through the genotype-phenotype connection / Danalaxshmi Shanen Ganapathee and Philipp Gunz
4. Coevolution of Language and Tools in the Human Brain: An ALE Meta-Analysis of Neural Activation During Syntactic Processing and Tool Use / Chet Sherwood, Veronika Kulik and Laura Denise Reyes
5. Brain evolution and language: a comparative 3D analysis of Wernicke’s area in extant and fossil hominids / Harmony Hill, Amélie Beaudet and Marta Mirazón Lahr
6. Studying lateralized behaviors in living humans: application in the context of brain evolution in hominins / Ameline Bardo, Andréa Filippo and Antoine Balzeau
7. Evolutionary and genomic perspectives of brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases / Brier A. Rigby Dames, Christine Charvet, Araxi Urrutia, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Huseyin Kilili, Karina Díaz-Barba and Michael Proulx
8. Evolutionary History of Hominin Brain Size and Phylogenetic Comparative Methods / Christopher Pestana, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Orlin Todorov, Amélie Beaudet and Julien Benoit