The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution

Offers a comprehensive and critical review of the role of animal nervous systems

Nelson R Cabej (Author)

9780323851541, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 24 June 2021

290 pages
23.5 x 19 x 1.9 cm, 0.59 kg

"This ambitious book contains an interesting mix of ideas but makes a weak case for abandoning our current models of evolutionary processes. Readers should not consider this volume to be an up to-date discussion on evolution, development, and behavior as it contains multiple misconceptions that are essential for understanding these topics." --The Quarterly Review of Biology

The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution provides readers with a substantial biological education on animal nervous systems and their role in the development, adaptation, homeostasis, and evolution of species. The book begins by delving into the embryonic development of the brain and then discusses epigenetic information and neural activity post-birth. It then analyzes the inductive brain’s neural and brain control of such factors like myogenesis, bone development, sensory organs, metamorphosis in vertebrates and invertebrates, and wing development in insects. The book closes with an examination of phenotypic evolution in neural control, mechanisms, and drivers of animal brains.

The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution will offer evolutionary biologists, specifically those researching development, adaptation, and evolution of animals, a comprehensive text that covers a variety of valuable topics.

1. Pre-neural stage of development
2. Development of the central nervous system
3. The inductive brain in animal development
4. Brain involvement in phenotypic evolution
5. Maintenance and change of phenotype - inheritance of acquired traits

Subject Areas: Animal husbandry [TVH], Zoology & animal sciences [PSV], Life sciences: general issues [PSA]