Digital Endocasts

From Skulls to Brains

Emiliano Bruner, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

289 Seiten

2019 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer Verlag, Japan
978-4-431-56827-8 (ISBN)

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This book is dedicated to a specific component of paleoneurology, probably the most essential one: endocasts. Those who want to approach the field in general terms will find this book especially helpful, as will those researchers working with endocranial anatomy and brain evolution.

This book is dedicated to a specific component of paleoneurology, probably the most essential one: endocasts. A series of original papers collected here focuses on describing methods and techniques that are dedicated to reconstruct and study fossil endocasts through computed tools. The book is particularly oriented toward hominid paleoneurology, although it also includes chapters on different taxa to provide a more general view of current perspectives and problems in evolutionary neuroanatomy. The first part of the book concerns techniques and tools to cast endocranial anatomy. The second part deals with computed morphometrics, and the third part is devoted to comparative neurobiology. Those who want to approach the field in general terms will find this book especially helpful, as will those researchers working with endocranial anatomy and brain evolution. The book will also be useful for researchers and graduate students in anthropology, bioarchaeology, medicine, and related fields.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
Zusatzinfo	106 Illustrations, color; 37 Illustrations, black and white; X, 289 p. 143 illus., 106 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Tokyo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	brain evolution • Computed morphometrics • Digital Anatomy • Evolutionary neuroanatomy • Paleoneurology
ISBN-10	4-431-56827-1 / 4431568271
ISBN-13	978-4-431-56827-8 / 9784431568278
Zustand	Neuware