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Neuroscientists need to be evolutionarily challenged

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2006

Robert A. Barton
Affiliation:
Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. r.a.barton@durham.ac.uk

Abstract

Evolutionary theory and methods are central to understanding the design of organisms, including their brains. This book does much to demonstrate the value of evolutionary neuroscience. Further work is needed to clarify the ways that neural systems evolved in general (specifically, the interaction between mosaic and coordinated evolution of brain components), and phylogenetic methods should be given a more prominent role in the analysis of comparative data.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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