PART 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, METHODS AND CONCEPTSStriedter: History of Ideas on Brain Evolution; Albert: Phylogenetic Character Reconstruction; Reichert, Hirth: Basic Nervous System "Types": One or Many?; Reichert, Lichtneckert: Origin and Evolution of the First Nervous System; Marín, López-Bendito: Neuronal Migration; Innocenti: The Role of Transient Connections in Brain Evolution; Cherniak: Neural Wiring Optimization; Stevens: Principles of Brain Scaling
PART 2 THE EVOLUTION OF BRAINS IN EARLY VERTEBRATES, FISHES, AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES AND BIRDSFritzsch, Glover: Structure of Brains of Primitive Vertebrates (tunicates, amphioxus, lampreys) and the Basic Features of the Vertebrate Brain; Wullimann, Varnier: Evolution of the Nervous System in Fishes; Roth, Dicke: Evolution of the Amphibian Nervous System; Bruce: Evolution of the Nervous System in Reptiles; Medina: Do Birds and Reptiles Possess Homologues of Mammalian Visual, Somatosensory and Motor Cortices?; Jarvis: The Evolution of Vocal Learning Systems in Birds and Humans; Martinez-Garcia, Novejarque, Lanuza: The Evolution of the Amygdala in Vertebrates; Fernald: The Evolution of Vertebrate Eyes; Eisthen, Polese: Vertebrate Olfactory Subsystems and their Evolution; Finger: The Evolution of Taste Systems; Soares, Carr: Shared and Convergent Features of the Auditory System of Vertebrates
PART 3 EVOLUTION OF MAMMALIAN BRAINSJerison: How Can Fossils Tell us About the Evolution of the Neocortex?; Molnár, Tavare, Cheung: The Origin of Neocortex: Lessons from Comparative Embryology; Kaas: Reconstructing the Organization of the Forebrain of the First Mammals; Krubitzer, Hunt: Captured in the net of space and time: Understanding cortical field evolution; Kaas: The Evolution of the Dorsal Thalamus in Mammals; Reiner: The Evolution of the Basal Ganglia in Mammals and other Vertebrates; Eichenbaum: The Evolution of the Hippocampus; Glickstein, Oberdick, Voogd: The Evolution of the Cerebellum; Illig: Olfactory Cortex: Comparative Anatomy; Graf: Vestibluar System; Simon, Nicolelis, Araujo: Evolution of Gustation; Catania: The Evolution of the Somatosensory System; Zook: Somatosensory Specializations of Flying Mammals; Nudo: The Evolution of Motor Cortex and Motor Systems; Lyon: The Evolution of Visual Cortex and Visual Systems
PART 4 PRIMATE BRAIN EVOLUTIONPreuss: Primate Brain Evolution; Ross, Martin: The Role of Vision in the Origin and Evolution of Primates; Kaas: The Evolution of Sensory and Motor Systems in Primates; Casagrande: The evolution of parallel pathways in the brains of primates; Hackett: The evolution of the primate and human auditory system; Deacon: The evolution of language systems in the human brain; Corballis: The evolution of hemispheric specializations of the human brain; Frey: Neurological specializations for manual gesture and tool use in humans; Allman: Frontal Cortex Evolution in Primates
