Brain evolution/Bibliography

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• Fitch, W. T. (2008), "Glossogeny and phylogeny: cultural evolution meets genetic evolution", Trends in Genetics 24 (8): 373–374, DOI:10.1016/j.tig.2008.05.003
• Sherwood, C.C.; Subiaul, F.; Zawidzki, T. (2008). "A natural history of the human mind: tracing evolutionary changes in brain and cognition". Journal of Anatomy 212 (4): 426-454. DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00868.x. Research Blogging.

• Vallender, E.J.; N. Mekel-Bobrov & B.T. Lahn (2008), "Genetic basis of human brain evolution", Trends in Neurosciences 31: 637, DOI:10.1016/j.tins.2008.08.010 ^[e]

A brief and balanced overview over the genetic mechanisms currently deemed relevant for the evolution of the human brain, along with pointers to some related methodological issues.

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• Emes, R.D.; Pocklington, A.J.; Anderson, C.N.G.; Bayes, A.; Collins, M.O.; Vickers, C.A.; Croning, M.D.R.; Malik, B.R.; Choudhary, J.S.; Armstrong, J.D.; Others, (2008). "Evolutionary expansion and anatomical specialization of synapse proteome complexity". Nature Neuroscience (6): pages to be defined. DOI:10.1038/nn.2135. Research Blogging.

• Tartarelli, G. & M. Bisconti (2007), "Trajectories and Constraints in Brain Evolution in Primates and Cetaceans", Human Evolution 21 (3): 275–287, DOI:10.1007/s11598-006-9027-4
• Molnár, Z.; C. Métin & A. Stoykova et al. (2006), "Comparative aspects of cerebral cortical development", Eur J Neurosci 23 (4): 921–934, DOI:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04611.x ^[e]

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• Jaaro, H. & M. Fainzilber (2006), "Building Complex Brains-Missing Pieces in an Evolutionary Puzzle", Brain Behav Evol 68 (3): 191–195, DOI:10.1159/000094088 ^[e]
• Shoshani, J.; W.J. Kupsky & G.H. Marchant (2006), "Elephant brain Part I: Gross morphology, functions, comparative anatomy, and evolution", Brain Research Bulletin 70 (2): 124–157, DOI:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.03.016
• Gomez, J.C. (2005), "Species comparative studies and cognitive development", Trends Cogn Sci 9 (3): 118–125, DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2005.01.004 ^[e]
• Carroll, S.B. (2005). "Evolution at two levels: on genes and form". PLoS Biol 3 (7): e245. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030245. Research Blogging.

• Jarvis, E.D.; Güntürkün, O.; Bruce, L.; Csillag, A.; Karten, H.; Kuenzel, W.; Medina, L.; Paxinos, G.; Perkel, D.J.; Shimizu, T.; Others, (2005). "Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution". Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6: 151-159. DOI:10.1038/nrn1606. Research Blogging.

• Reiner, A. (2005). "A new avian brain nomenclature: Why, how and what". Brain Research Bulletin 66 (4-6): 317-331. DOI:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.05.007. Research Blogging.

• Roth, G.; Dicke, U. (2005). "Evolution of the brain and intelligence". Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (5): 250-257.

• Bush, E.C.; Allman, J.M. (2003), "The Scaling of White Matter to Gray Matter in Cerebellum and Neocortex", Brain Behav Evol 61 (1): 1–5, DOI:10.1159/000068880
• Harrison, K.H.; Hof, P.R.; Wang, S.S. (2002), "Scaling laws in the mammalian neocortex: Does form provide clues to function?", J Neurocytol 31 (3-5): 289–98, DOI:10.1023/A:1024178127195 ^[e]
• Menzel, R. & M. Giurfa (2001), "Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5 (2): 62–71, DOI:10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01601-6 ^[e]
• Clark, D.A.; P.P. Mitra & S.S. Wang (2001), "Scalable architecture in mammalian brains", Nature 411 (6834): 189–93, DOI:10.1038/35075564 ^[e]

"...among quantitative brain parameters examined to date, only the cerebrotype provides a measure of architecture that correlates with date of divergence of advanced primates."

• Changizi, M.A. (2001), "Principles underlying mammalian neocortical scaling", Biol Cybern 84 (3): 207–15, DOI:10.1007/s004220000205
• Supèr, H.; Uylings, H.B.M. (2001), "The Early Differentiation of the Neocortex: a Hypothesis on Neocortical Evolution", Cerebral Cortex 11 (12): 1101–1109, DOI:10.1093/cercor/11.12.1101
• Katz, P.S. & R.M. Harris-Warrick (1999), "The evolution of neuronal circuits underlying species-specific behavior", Current Opinion in Neurobiology 9 (5): 628–633, DOI:10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00012-4 ^[e]
• Kornack, David R. & Pasko Rakic (1998), "Changes in cell-cycle kinetics during the development and evolution of primate neocortex", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (3): 1242–1246, DOI:10.1073/pnas.95.3.1242 ^[e]

In comparison to rodents, "...substantially more total rounds of cell division elapsed during the prolonged neurogenetic period of the monkey cortex, providing a basis for increased cell production."

• Henneberg, M. (1998), "Evolution of the Human Brain: is Bigger Better?", Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 25 (9): 745–749, DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02289.x ^[e]
• Aiello, L.C. & P. Wheeler (1995), "The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: the Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution", Current Anthropology 36 (2): 199-221, DOI:10.1086/204350 ^[e]

Proposed that the energetic costs of the resting metabolism of different organs within the body have to be balanced. Specifically, such a trade-off is hypothesized to have governed the increasing brain size during primate and human evolution, in concert with a decrease in the amount of digestive tissue. For a critique, see Hladik et al. (1999).

• Frank, E. & P. Wenner (1993), "Environmental specification of neuronal connectivity", Neuron 10 (5): 779–785, DOI:10.1016/0896-6273(93)90194-V ^[e]
• Deacon, Terrence W. (1990), "Rethinking Mammalian Brain Evolution", American Zoologist 30 (3): 629, DOI:10.1093/icb/30.3.629 ^[e]