Definition
Evolutionary neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field of study which seeks to understand the evolution of the brain and nervous system and provides a framework for interpreting evolutionary changes in the brain and brain component size or shape.
Introduction
The field of evolutionary neuroscience has provided us with an enormous amount of comparative data and relevant theoretical principles to support our current understanding of the evolution of the nervous system. Evolutionary neuroscientists are interested in understanding how the brain evolves and in reconstructing the natural history of the nervous system from a structural and functional perspective. Evidence of brain evolution can be documented through the lens of various biological fields, including biological anthropology, ethology, paleontology, comparative psychology, comparative neuroanatomy, cognitive science, and molecular biology and genetics....
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Lemert, J.R., Spocter, M.A. (2018). Evolution of the Brain, The. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3094-1
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