Comparative Anatomy and Phylogeny of Primate Muscles and Human Evolution

ISBN-13: 9781578087679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 906 str.

Rui Diogo; Bernard A. Wood

Opis

The combined anatomical materials provided in this book point out that modern humans have fewer head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles than most other living primates, but are consistent with the proposal that facial and vocal communication and specialized thumb movements have probably played an important role in recent human evolution. This book will be of interest to primatologists, comparative anatomists, functional morphologists, zoologists, physical anthropologists, and systematicians, as well as to medical students, physicians and researchers interested in understanding the origin, evolution, homology and variations of the muscles of modern humans.

Spis treści

Introduction. Materials & Methods. Phylogenetic Analyses of Primates Based on the Muscles of the Head, Neck, Pectoral Region and Upper Limb. General Remarks on the Evolution of the Head, Neck, Pectoral Region and Upper Limb Muscles of Primates, with Notes on their Evolution in Hominoids.

O autorze

Rui Diogo, Bernard A. Wood