Brain Evolution by Design: From Neural Origin to Cognitive Architecture (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface.- Part 1 The Origins of Neurons and Networks.- 1 Physical ethology of unicellular organism.- 2 Molecular characteristics of neuron-like functions in single-cell organisms.- 3 Back through time: how cnidarians and basal metazoans shed light on ancient nervous systems.- Part 2 The Rise of Diverse Brain Types.- 4 Functional specification of a primitive bilaterian brain in planarian.- 5 The computation and robustness of the mini-cognitive centers of terrestrial mollusks - an exquisite outcome of brain evolution.- 6 Insect brains - minute structures controlling complex behaviors.- 7 Identifying vertebrate brain prototypes in deuterostomes.- 8 Genome and Transcriptome-wide Researches of Brain Evolution.- Part 3 Cognitive Systems.- 9 The origin of vertebrate brain centers.- 10 Adaptive radiation and vertebrate brain diversity: cases of teleosts.- 11 Molecular profiling reveals insight into avian brain organization and functional columnar commonalities with mammals.- 12 The neocortex and dorsal ventricular ridge: functional convergence and underlying developmental mechanisms.- 13 Molecular investigations of the structure and development of the brain of carnivores.- 14 Evolution of the mammalian brain with a focus on whale olfactory bulbs.- 15 The Evolution and Function of Sleep.- 16 Prefrontal anatomical architecture and top-down behavioral control in human and non-human primates.- Part 4 Models and Designs.- 17 Organisational Principles of Connectomes: Changes during Evolution and Development.- 18 Muscular-Hydrostat Computers: Physical Reservoir Computing for Octopus-Inspired Soft Robots.- 19 Brain Evolution as an Information Flow Designer: the Ground Architecture for Biological and Artificial General Intelligence