
Volumes 8A (43477-6; reviewed in SciTech, March 1991) and 8B, taken together, set out in some detail the range of telencephalic and especially cortical structure and connectivity exhibited by the five major classes of vertebrates. Volume 8A deals largely with nonmammalian vertebrates...

The cerebral cortex, especially that part customarily designated "neocortex," is one of the hallmarks of mammalian evolution and reaches its greatest size, relatively speaking, and its widest structural diversity in the human brain. The evolution of this structure, as remarkable...