Development and Evolution of Brain Size

List of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter I Introduction: Toward Understanding the Brain-Behavior Relationship What is the Importance of Brain Size for Behavior? What are the Effects of Genetic Selection for Brain Size on Brain Substructures and Behavior? Do Genetic and Environmental Manipulations of Brain Size Have Similar Behavioral Consequences? Emphases and Omissions ReferencesChapter II Evolutionary Theory and the Evolution of the Human Brain Some Present Problems in Evolution Human Evolution and the Evolution of the Human Brain Conclusions ReferencesChapter III The Evolution of Diversity in Brain Size Above the Species Level Diversity within Species Multivariate Analysis Summary and Conclusions ReferencesChapter IV Brain Size, Allometry, and Reorganization: Toward a Synthesis Scope and Purpose Toward a Model How Good are the Primate Data? Some Preliminary Multivariate Analysis of the Stephan, Bouchot, and Andy (1970) Primate Data Conclusion ReferencesChapter V Cerebral Indices and Behavioral Differences Intelligence: General Ability or Task Specific Testing Various Hypotheses about Intelligence Attempts of Comparative Psychology to Study between Species Differences Removing Special Abilities from Performance Scores Conclusion ReferencesChapter VI Correlated Brain and Intelligence Development in Humans General Features of Organ Development Human Brain Growth Animal Brain Growth Manifestations of Brain Growth Stages in Properties Other Than Weight Regionalization of Brain Growth Stages The Functional Significance of the Brain Growth Stages Two Examples of Brain-Behavior Stage Correlation in Animals Summary ReferencesChapter VII Genetic Techniques as Tools for Analysis of Brain-Behavior Relationships Rationale for Using Genetic Techniques The Genetic Tools Comment ReferencesChapter VIII Correlates of Mouse Brain Weight: A Search for Component Morphological Traits Behavioral Correlates of Genetic Selection for Brain Weight Volumes of Forebrain Regions in Mice Selected for Brain Weight Relationships between Brain Regions in Other Mammalian Species Relationships between Brain Regions in inbred Strains of Mice Relationships between Brain Regions in Mice Genetically Selected for Brain Weight Implications ReferencesChapter IX Brain Weight Brain Chemical Content and Their Early Manipulation Brain Weight: Correlations with Other Brain Parameters Natural Cell Death during Early Brain Development Variability of Brain Parameters Genetic Manipulation of Brain Parameters Early Environmental Manipulation of Brain Parameters Summary and Conclusions ReferencesChapter X Fuller BWS Lines: History and Results Quantitative Aspects of Selection Selection Differential Brain Growth Patterns in BWS Lines Body Weight and Fertility of BWS Mice Behavioral Correlates Intertrial Interval and Water Maze Learning Audiogenic Seizure Susceptibility in BWS Mice Summary ReferencesChapter XI Learning Performances in Mice Genetically Selected for Brain Weight: Problems of Generality Assessment Problems Posed by Genetics Learning Performance in Lines Selected for Brain Weight Line Differences Brain-Behavior Correlations in Heterogeneous Stocks Conclusions ReferencesChapter XII Biochemical Correlates of Selective Breeding for Brain Size Brain Weight Development Biochemical Characteristics Conclusions ReferencesChapter XIII Fuller BWS Lines: Parental Influences on Brain Size and Behavioral Development Models of Pathways from Selection to Behavior Alternative Hypotheses Effects of Fostering Procedures on Brain Weight and Behavioral Development Summary and Conclusions ReferencesChapter XIV Responsiveness of Brain Size to Individual Experience: Behavioral