Name: Human Paleoneurology
SKU: 58386277
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Author: Emiliano Bruner
ISBN: 9783319084992

Type

Physical Book

Author

Emiliano Bruner

Publisher

Springer

Language

English

Pages

250

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4x15.6x1.6 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9783319084992

Synopsis "Human Paleoneurology"

The book presents an integrative review of paleoneurology, the study of endocranial morphology in fossil species. The main focus is on showing how computed methods can be used to support advances in evolutionary neuroanatomy, paleoanthropology and archaeology and how they have contributed to creating a completely new perspective in cognitive neuroscience. Moreover, thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, the book addresses students and researchers approaching human paleoneurology from different angles and for different purposes, such as biologists, physicians, anthropologists, archaeologists and computer scientists. The individual chapters, written by international experts, represent authoritative reviews of the most important topics in the field. All the concepts are presented in an easy-to-understand style, making them accessible to university students, newcomers and also to anyone interested in understanding how methods like biomedical imaging, digital anatomy and computed and multivariate morphometrics can be used for analyzing ontogenetic and phylogenetic changes according to the principles of functional morphology, morphological integration and modularity.

Emiliano Bruner

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Emiliano Bruner (Roma, 1972) es licenciado en Biología y doctor en Biología Animal por la Universidad La Sapienza de Roma, Italia. Es investigador en Paleoneurobiología en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales del CSIC en Madrid. Es también investigador afiliado en el Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Neurológicas (Fundación CIEN) de Madrid.

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