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Functional lateralization in the human brain was first identified in the classic observations by Broca in the 19th century. Only one hundred years later, however, research on this topic began anew, discovering that humans share brain lateralization not only with other mammals, but with other vertebrates and even invertebrates. Studies on lateralization have also received considerable attention in recent years due to their important evolutionary implications, becoming an important and flourishing field of investigation worldwide among ethnologists and psychologists. The chapters of this book concern the emergence and adaptive function of lateralization in several aspects of behavior for a wide range of vertebrate taxa. These studies span from how lateralization affects some aspects of fitness in fishes, or how it affects the predatory and the exploratory behavior of lizards, to navigation in the homing flights of pigeons, social learning in chicks, the influence of lateralization on the ontogeny process of chicks, and the similarity of manual lateralization (handedness) between humans and apes, our closest relatives.

Animal behavior. --- Cerebral dominance. --- Laterality. --- Vertebrates -- Nervous system. --- Cerebral dominance --- Vertebrates --- Laterality --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Animal behavior --- Chordata --- Dominance, Cerebral --- Poultry --- Galliformes --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena --- Birds --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Organisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Functional Laterality --- Chickens --- Zoology --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Neuroscience --- Animal Behavior --- Behavior --- Physiological aspects --- Nervous system. --- Life sciences. --- Neurosciences. --- Behavioral sciences. --- Life Sciences. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Functional asymmetry (Brain) --- Hemispheric dominance (Brain) --- Lateralization (Brain) --- Left and right brain --- Right and left brain --- Cerebral hemispheres --- Dual-brain psychology --- Whole brain learning --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Wirbeltiere. --- Lateralität. --- Verhalten. --- Ferrara <2010>