Human Brain Evolution: The Influence of Freshwater and Marine Food Resources discusses the emergence of human cognition at a conceptual level, describing it as a process of long adaptive stasis interrupted by short periods of cognitive advance.

Based on studies of the modem human brain, certain prerequisites were needed for the development of the early brain and associated cognitive advances. This book documents the energy and nutrient constraints of the modern brain, highlighting the significant role of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) in brain development and maintenance.

Contents

1. Macroevolutionary Patterns, Exaptation, and Emergence in the Evolution of the Human Brain and Cognition
2. Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Human Brain Evolution
3. Human Brain Evolution: A Question of Solving Key Nutritional and Metabolic Constraints on Mammalian brain Development
4. Metabolic and Molecular Aspects of the Critical Role of Docosahexaenoic Acid in Human Brain Function
5. Lessons from Shorebased Hunter-Gatherer Diets in East Africa
6. Thyroid Hormone, Iodine and Human brain Evolution
7. Food for Thought: The Role of Coastlines and Aquatic Resources in Human Evolution
8. The Case for Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Foods by Pre-Sapiens Hominins
9. Brain Size in Carnivoran Mammals that Forage at the Land-Water Ecotone, with Implications for Robust australopithecine Paleobiology
10. Coastal Diet, Encephalization, and Innovative Behaviors in the Late middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
11. Human Brain Evolution: A New Wetlands Scenario

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