Digital Endocasts

A book specifically dedicated to endocasts and human evolution

Integrates information from anthropology, neurobiology, and paleontology

Introduces methods and techniques in digital anatomy and computed morphometrics

A book specifically dedicated to endocasts and human evolution Integrates information from anthropology, neurobiology, and paleontology Introduces methods and techniques in digital anatomy and computed morphometrics

Inhalt

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.