Article Collection: Brain Evolution - From Gene Expression to Neural Circuits and Behaviors. Proceedings of ECCN 2022

Brain evolution is the evolution of brain development. Thus, to understand how the highly complex structure of our brain emerged during evolution, we need to understand the evolution of its development. In this special issue, we review the variations in the development of the pallium that enabled the production of complex forebrains in vertebrates. The developmental trajectories of pallial cells are fundamental to understanding evolutionary changes and homologies. We propose that an accumulation of subtle modifications from very early brain development accounted for the diversification of vertebrate pallia and the independent origins of complex pallia in distantly related vertebrates.

This article collection was edited by Dr. Pavel Němec (Charles University, Prague), Dr. Maria Antonietta Tosches (Columbia University , New York) and Dr. Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford), and published in the Brain Behavior and Evolution journal.

Conflict of Interest statement
Pavel Němec, Maria Antonietta Tosches and Zoltán Molnár have no conflict of interest to declare.