Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue - Molecular biology and evolution, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
The role of fossils in dating the tree of life has been misunderstood. Fossils can provide
good “minimum” age estimates for branches in the tree, but “maximum” constraints on those …

Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup

TD Lamb, SP Collin, EN Pugh Jr - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007‏ - nature.com
Charles Darwin appreciated the conceptual difficulty in accepting that an organ as wonderful
as the vertebrate eye could have evolved through natural selection. He reasoned that if …

What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness

AB Barron, C Klein - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016‏ - pnas.org
How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics. Addressing these
issues requires considering the distribution of consciousness across the animal …

[كتاب][B] The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience

TE Feinberg, JM Mallatt - 2016‏ - books.google.com
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

[كتاب][B] Animal eyes

MF Land, DE Nilsson - 2012‏ - books.google.com
Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal
kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical …

[كتاب][B] The neurobiology of the prefrontal cortex: anatomy, evolution, and the origin of insight

RE Passingham, SP Wise - 2012‏ - books.google.com
The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded
dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a …

Cortical mechanisms of action selection: the affordance competition hypothesis

P Cisek - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2007‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
At every moment, the natural world presents animals with two fundamental pragmatic
problems: selection between actions that are currently possible and specification of the …

Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates

BM Edens, J Stundl, HA Urrutia, ME Bronner - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
The neural crest is an embryonic stem cell population unique to vertebrates whose
expansion and diversification are thought to have promoted vertebrate evolution by enabling …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015‏ - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

[كتاب][B] Vertebrate palaeontology

MJ Benton - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …