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Ken Ashwell - The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation - 9780521519458 - V9780521519458
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The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation

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Description for The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation hardcover. A comprehensive and authoritative review of the current scientific knowledge of how evolution has shaped the brains of Australian marsupials. Editor(s): Ashwell, Ken. Num Pages: 366 pages, 187 b/w illus. 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1MBF; PSAN; PSVW71. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1564.
Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of mammals with structural and behavioural features echoing those seen among primates, rodents, carnivores, edentates and ungulates elsewhere in the world. Many of these adaptations involve profound evolutionary changes in the nervous system, and occurred in isolation from those unfolding among placental mammals. Ashwell provides the first comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials. The book also includes the first comprehensive delineated atlases of brain structure in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521519458
SKU
V9780521519458
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About Ken Ashwell
Ken Ashwell has over 29 years in the neurosciences field, including teaching experience in medical anatomy, neuroscience, comparative anatomy and anthropology. Ken has published over 100 papers in international refereed neuroscience journals, ten book chapters and four books. He has published four developmental and adult brain atlases in collaboration with George Paxinos and colleagues and contributed to a prestigious and ... Read more

Reviews for The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation
'… rigorously organized …this volume provides a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials … as well as a useful glossary. A recommendable book.' Mammalia

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