Developmental approaches to human evolution /

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Imprint:Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2016]
Description:x, 328 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10507195
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Other authors / contributors:Boughner, Julia C., editor.
Rolian, Campbell, editor.
ISBN:9781118524688
1118524683
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Online version: Evolutionary developmental anthropology. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2015] 9781118524701
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Foreword: Humans from Embryos
  • 1. Introduction to Evo-Devo-Anthro
  • 2. Chondrocranial Growth, Developmental Integration and Evolvability in the Human Skull
  • 3. The Tooth of the Matter: The Evo-Devo of Coordinated Phenotypic Change
  • 4. Genetic Regulation of Amelogenesis and Implications for Hominin Ancestors
  • 5. Evo-Devo Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Human Evolution: Limb Proportions and Penile Spines
  • 6. Out on a Limb: Development and the Evolution of the Human Appendicular Skeleton
  • 7. Tinkering with Growth Plates: A Developmental Simulation of Limb Bone Evolution in Hominoids
  • 8. Origin, Development, and Evolution of Primate Muscles, with Notes on Human Anatomical Variations and Anomalies
  • 9. The Evolutionary Biology of Human Neurodevelopment: Evo-Neuro-Devo Comes of Age
  • 10. Evolving the Developing Cortex: Conserved Gradients of Neurogenesis Scale and Channel New Functions in Primates
  • 11. Growing Up Fast, Maturing Slowly: The Evolution of a Uniquely Modern Human Pattern of Brain Development
  • 12. FOXP2 and the Genetic and Developmental Basis of Human Language
  • 13. Assembly Instructions Included
  • Index