Stephen Shepherd is a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Neural Systems, Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and was previously Chair of the Princeton University Postdoctoral Association. He has published his work in diverse journals including Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology and Animal Cognition, and has also contributed chapters to a several books.

• List of Contributors viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xiii1 The Brain Evolved to Guide Action 1Michael Anderson and Anthony Chemero2 The Evolution of Evolutionary Neuroscience 21Suzana Herculano]Houzel3 Approaches to the Study of Brain Evolution 38Jon H. Kaas4 Intraneuronal Computation: Charting the Signaling Pathways of the Neuron 49Jorge Navarro, Raquel del Moral, and Pedro C. Marijuán5 The Evolution of Neurons 88Robert W. Meech6 The First Nervous System 125Nadia Riebli and Heinrich Reichert7 Fundamental Constraints on the Evolution of Neurons 153A. Aldo Faisal and Ali Neishabouri Copyrighted Material8 The Central Nervous System of Invertebrates 173Volker Hartenstein9 Nervous System Architecture in Vertebrates 236Mario F. Wullimann10 Neurotransmission—Evolving Systems 279Michel Anctil11 Neural Development in Invertebrates 307Roger P. Croll12 Forebrain Development in Vertebrates: The Evolutionary Role of Secondary Organizers 350Luis Puelles13 Brain Evolution and Development: Allometry of the Brain and Arealization of the Cortex 388Diarmuid J. Cahalane and Barbara L. Finlay14 Comparative Aspects of Learning and Memory 410Michael Koch15 Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity 422Rayna M. Harris, Lauren A. O'Connell, and Hans A. Hofmann16 Neural Mechanisms of Communication 444Julia Sliwa, Daniel Y. Takahashi, and Stephen V. Shepherd17 Social Coordination: From Ants to Apes 478Anne Böckler, Anna Wilkinson, Ludwig Huber, and Natalie Sebanz18 Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution 495Sally E. Street and Kevin N. Laland19 Reading Other Minds 514Juliane KaminskiIndex 526