Reddit reviews Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
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Vertebrate neuroanatomical knowledge is not the whole picture, and any discussion of nervous system evolution is incomplete without a discussion of nervous systems in invertebrates (and in fact I think the discussion is woefully biased toward vertebrates - not without reason, I suppose, since we are vertebrates and much of this is relevant to health, but vertebrates are 3% of animals and only marginally more of animals with a CNS).
I STRONGLY suggest you pick up this book by Nicholas Strausfeld (who is an excellent scientist, an excellent presenter, and a nice person to boot - I've met him): http://www.amazon.com/Arthropod-Brains-Functional-Historical-Significance/dp/0674046331 . You want the most populous nervous system on the planet? ARTHROPODS
Also, cephalopods should also be a group that you look into, as they rival some reptiles and small mammals for brains, yet we have not shared an ancestor with them since before the Cambrian. And trust me: their brethren the clams are dumb.
He's written plenty of papers geared toward a scientific crowd as well.
I also strongly suggest poking around developmental neurobiology, as it stands to fill in the gaps where studies of the adult animal, phylogenetics, and paleontology do not.