Beyond sex differences [electronic resource] : genes, brains and matrilineal evolution

Author:: Keverne, Eric B.
Published:: [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource

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""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright information""; ""Table of contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 On the Genetic Origin of Sex Differences""; ""References""; ""2 Epigenetics: The Gene Environment Interface""; ""Retrotransposons""; ""Reprogramming the Epigenome""; ""The Epigenetic Clock""; ""Epigenetics, Brain Development and Function""; ""Neocortical Development, Epigenetics and Social Influences""; ""Intergenerational Inheritance""; ""References""; ""3 Genomic Imprinting: Matrilineal Regulatory Control Over Gene Expression"", ""Historical Perspective on Genomic Imprinting""""Evolutionary Origins of Genomic Imprinting""; ""Evolutionary Theories of Genomic Imprinting""; ""Imprinted Gene Stability""; ""Imprinted Gene Networks""; ""Reprogramming of the Imprinted Genome""; ""References""; ""4 Puberty: Developmental Reorganisation of Sex Differences in Body and Mind""; ""Kisspeptin: A Key Neuropeptide for Determining Mammalian Puberty Onset""; ""Early Onset of Puberty and its Consequences""; ""Reorganisational Changes in the Brain at Puberty""; ""Sex Differences in the Reorganisational Changes of the Brain at Puberty"", ""Puberty and Behavioural Disorders""""References""; ""5 Motherâ#x80;#x93;Infant Bonding: The Biological Foundations for Social Life and Cultures""; ""The Formation and Regulation of Primate Social Bonds""; ""Social Adversity: Influence on Brain Development""; ""Infantâ#x80;#x93;Mother Attachment""; ""The History of Human Social Evolution""; ""Significance of the Matriline in Human Societies""; ""Concluding Commentary""; ""References""; ""6 Brain and Placenta: The Coming Together of Two Distinct Generations""; ""Brain Evolution"", and ""Co-adaptive Development of the Maternal â#x80;#x98;Emotional Brainâ#x80;#x99; and the Foetal Placenta""""Masculinisation of the Male Hypothalamic Brain""; ""The Matrilineal Importance for Neocortical Brain Evolution""; ""References""; ""The Epigenetic Landscape in the Evolutionary Ascent of the Matriline: Concluding Overview""; ""Germline Reprogramming""; ""DNA Repair""; ""Genomic Imprinting""; ""Motherâ#x80;#x99;s Brain and the Foetal Placenta: An Intergenerational Template Facilitating Evolutionary Co-adaptation""; ""Epigenetics, Brain Development and Brain Evolution""

Summary:

Recent developments in behavioural neuroscience and genomics are providing exciting new tools for understanding mammalian evolution. Drawing on a range of disciplines including genomic reprogramming, immunology, genomic imprinting, placentation and brain development, this book examines the leading role played by the mother's genome and epigenome in the successful evolutionary progression of humans from ancestral mammals. Keverne begins by discussing the historic context of the perceived dominance of males and the patriline, before arguing that it is instead the matriline that exerts the dominant influence in shaping the evolution of our brain development and behaviour, especially the co-adaptive development of brain and placenta. Presenting a balanced outlook on the development of sex differences and an alternative to traditional views, Beyond Sex Differences will be of interest to anyone studying and researching mother and infant development.

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9781108242080 (electronic bk.)
1108242081 (electronic bk.)
9781108277075 (electronic bk.)
1108277071 (electronic bk.)

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