Edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, and Michael L. McKinney
School of American Research Press
Santa Fe
James Currey
Oxford
2000
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xii
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology, and
Psychology: Convergences in the Study of Human Behavioral
Ontogeny 1
Sue Taylor Parker
2. Evolving Behavioral Complexity by Extending
Development 25
Michael L. McKinney
3. Heterochrony in Brain Evolution: Cellular versus Morphological
Analyses 41
Terrence W. Deacon
4. The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Language: A Neural Network Perspective 89
Elizabeth Bates and Jeffrey Elman
5. The Developmental Timing of Primate Play: A Neural Selection
Model 131
Lynn A. Fairbanks
6. Evolutionary Development, Life Histories, and Brain Size: Finding
Connections via a Multivariate
Method 159
John Gittleman, H.-K Luh, C.G. Anderson, and S. E. Cates
7. Current Issues in the Investigation of Evolution by Heterochrony, with
Emphasis on the Debate over Human
Neoteny 181
Brian Shea
8. The Heterochronic Evolution of Primate Cognitive Development 215
Jonas Langer
9. Cultural Apprenticeship and Culture Change: Tool Learning and Imitation
in Chimpanzees and Humans 237
Patricia Greenfield, Ashley Maynard, Christopher Boehm, and Emily
Yut Schmidtling
10. Homo erectus Infancy and Childhood: The Turning Point in the Evolution
of Behavioral Development in
Hominids 279
Sue Taylor Parker
References 319
Index 371
FROM BACK COVER:
As the twenty-first century dawns, a new field of evolutionary
developmental biology is emerging: the comparative study of species-typical
life histories and developmental courses. This intrinsically
cross-disciplinary approach to primate evolution is well represented by the
contributors to the ten chapters in this book, who come from the fields of
biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology,
and cognitive neuroscience.
The authors of Biology, Brains, and Behavior share a belief that
comparative studies of brain development in human and nonhuman primates
hold the key to understanding the evolution of primates' behavioral
ontogeny. Using theoretical models such as heterochrony, allometry, life
history theory, cladistics, and Piagetian cognitive stage development, they
examine questions fundamental to our understanding of the human
species: Are humans underdeveloped or overdeveloped apes? What is the
role of the brain in life history? How did brain development change during
hominid evolution? Their answers offer a challenging new look at the ways
in which cognition, language, and behavior develop from primates' earliest
embryonic stages into adulthood.
"Evolutionary developmental biology is an important, burgeoning field that
promises to illuminate many features of the human condition and
career. The editors are to be commended for assembling this benchmark
publication."
-Russell H. Tuttle, The University of Chicago
CONTRIBUTORS
C. G. Anderson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Elizabeth Bates
Center for Research in Cognitive Development
University of California, San Diego
Christopher Boehm
Department of Anthropology, Jane Goodall Research Center
University of Southern California
S. E. Cates
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Terrence W. Deacon
Department of Anthropology, Boston University
Jeffrey Elman
Department of Cognitive Sciences
University of California, San Diego
Lynn A. Fairbanks
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Neuropsychiatric Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
John Gittleman
Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Patricia Greenfield
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonas Langer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
H.-K Luh
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ashley Maynard
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael L. McKnney
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Sue Taylor Parker
Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University
Emily Yut Schmidtling
Los Angeles, California
Brian Shea
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Northwestern University
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