Biology, Brains, and Behavior

An exciting new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emerging at the start of the twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behavioral ontogeny of primates, the authors-leading scholars of biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience-pose questions that probe our fundamental understanding of the human species.

List of Illustrations

ix

List of Tables

xii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology, and Psychology: Convergences in the Study of Human Behavioral Ontogeny

1

(24)

Sue Taylor Parker

Evolving Behavioral Complexity by Extending Development

25

(16)

Michael L. McKinney

Heterochrony in Brain Evolution: Cellular versus Morphological Analyses

41

(48)

Terrence W. Deacon

The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Language: A Neural Network Perspective

89

(42)

Elizabeth Bates

Jeffrey Elman

The Developmental Timing of Primate Play: A Neural Selection Model

131

(28)

Lynn A. Fairbanks

Evolutionary Development, Life Histories, and Brain Size: Finding Connections via a Multivariate Method

159

(22)

John Gittleman

H.-K. Luh

C.G. Anderson

S. E. Cates

Current Issues in the Investigation of Evolution by Heterochrony, with Emphasis on the Debate over Human Neoteny

181

(34)

Brian Shea

The Heterochronic Evolution of Primate Cognitive Development

215

(22)

Jonas Langer

Cultural Apprenticeship and Culture Change: Tool Learning and Imitation in Chimpanzees and Humans

237

(42)

Patricia Greenfield

Ashley Maynard

Christopher Boehm

Emily Yut Schmidtling

Homo erectus Infancy and Childhood: The Turning Point in the Evolution of Behavioral Development in Hominids

279

(40)

Sue Taylor Parker

References

319

(52)

Index

371

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