Behavioral and morphological asymmetries in vertebrates.9781587061059 Behavioral and morphological asymmetries in vertebrates. Malashichev, Yegor B. and A. Wallace Deckel. Landes Bioscience 2006 193 pages $139.00 Hardcover Molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller intelligence unit QP363 In September 2004, the Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, city, United States Saint Petersburg, city (1990 pop. 238,629), Pinellas co., W Fla., on Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico at the southern end of the Pinellas peninsula; settled in the mid-1800s, inc. 1892. Society of Naturalists hosted the second international symposium on the topic, where specialists in various medical and biological sciences explored the asymmetries in structural and functional development, evolution and adaptation, and function. Specific topics include the development of vertebrate brain Vertebrate brain (evolution) A highly complex organ consisting of sensory and motor systems that constitutes part of the nervous system. Virtually all of the brain systems that are found in mammals occur in birds, reptiles, and amphibians, as well as in fishes asymmetry under normal and space flight conditions, the lateralization lat·er·al·i·za·tion n. Localization of function attributed to either the right or left side of the brain. of spatial orientation in birds, and the role of functional brain asymmetry in human adaptation. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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