Adaptation and the Brain (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

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Adaptation and the Brain
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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Measurable Brain
	2.1 Measuring the brain
	2.2 Measuring skull volumes
	2.3 Variation in brain size measurement
	2.4 Body size measurement
	2.5 Measuring parts of the brain
	2.6 Summary
Chapter 3: The Intelligent Brain
	3.1 Brain size and intelligence
	3.2 What is cognition?
	3.3 Comparing cognitive abilities
	3.4 Food storing, spatial cognition, and the hippocampus
	3.5 The hippocampus and spatial memory in food storers
	3.6 The relationship between whole brain size and cognition
	3.7 Cognition and fitness
	3.8 Conclusions
Chapter 4: The Ecological Brain
	4.1 What is ‘ecology’?
	4.2 Ecology and sensory-motor areas of the brain
	4.3 Space, cognition, and the hippocampus
		4.3.1 Hippocampal volume and the need for spatial cognition
		4.3.2 A test of the explanation for hippocampal variation
		4.3.3 Sex differences
		4.3.4 Seasonal variation
		4.3.5 Spatial demand and spatial cognition
	4.4 Whole brain size: Foraging
	4.5 Migration and variability
	4.6 Domestication
	4.7 Summary
Chapter 5: The Innovative Brain
	5.1 The Innovative Brain Hypothesis
	5.2 Operationalizing innovation
	5.3 Invasion
	5.4 Urbanization
	5.5 Problem solving
	5.6 Conclusions
Chapter 6: The Technical Brain
	6.1 Tool use
	6.2 Comparative evidence
	6.3 Cognition and tool use
		6.3.1 Motor skills
		6.3.2 Physical cognition
		6.3.3 Problem solving
	6.4 Tool use and the brain
	6.5 An alternative to tool use?
	6.6 Conclusions
Chapter 7: The Sexual Brain
	7.1 Morphological differences between the sexes
	7.2 Sex differences in the brain
		7.2.1 Humans
		7.2.2 Songbirds and rodents
	7.3 Sex differences in cognition
	7.4 Cognition and sex hormones
	7.5 Sexual selection, brain size, and cognition
	7.6 The Mating Mind
		7.6.1 Female mate choice
		7.6.2 Male–male competition
		7.6.3 Post-copulatory sexual selection
	7.7 Mating strategy
	7.8 Parental care
	7.9 Conclusions
Chapter 8: The Social Brain
	8.1 Origins
	8.2 Proxies for intelligence and social complexity
	8.3 The Social Brain Hypothesis in the 1990s
	8.4 The Social Brain Hypothesis in the 2000s
	8.5 The Social Brain Hypothesis in the 2010s
	8.6 Social cognition
	8.7 Conclusions
Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks
	9.1 Brain size: what is a brain ‘for’?
	9.2 Determining neural function
	9.3 Cognitive performance
	9.4 Quantifying selection pressures
	9.5 Identifying fitness benefits
	9.6 Invertebrates, cognition, and brain size
	9.7 No need for single explanations
	9.8 Conclusions
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