Human Evolution of Body Cognition: Brain, Cognitive Archeology, and Perception offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective on the role of brain form and function, body cognition, and visuospatial integration in the evolution of ancient and modern human species. It presents current topics in evolutionary neuroanatomy, cognitive sciences, and experimental archaeology, to provide a bridge between anthropology and evolutionary studies to neurosciences. Written by international experts in paleoanthropology and prehistoric archaeology, as well as neurobiology and psychology, this book explores how body perception and spatial capacity may have evolved in humans as to enhance a "prosthetic capacity" able to integrate the brain, body, and technological discoveries, into a single functional system within human species. It includes chapters on the anatomy, function, and evolution of the parietal cortex in human and non-human primates. The book also covers the evolution of visuospatial cognition, and how modern brain imaging can trace these changes back millions of years. Human Evolution of Body Cognition: Brain, Cognitive Archeology, and Perception represents an essential resource for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and neuroscientists who are interested in the role of body perception and spatial ability in human cognition.