Research Catalog

Title

The evolutionary biology of the human pelvis : an integrative approach / Cara M. Wall-Scheffler, Seattle Pacific University, Helen K. Kurki, University of Victoria, Benjamin M. Auerbach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Author

Wall-Scheffler, Cara, 1978-

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kurki, Helen, 1973-
• Auerbach, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Miller)

Description

173 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"Lately, a number of interesting and innovative investigations have started to approach the pelvis and pelvic variation from different perspectives, including developmental, demographic and phylogenetic, as well as functional from the perspectives of tasks other than unloaded, level walking, like burden transport and a combination of arboreality and terrestriality. Additionally, as technology improves, we have begun the vast task of actually quantifying the variation of this complex three-dimensional shape and comparing across and between populations. All of these different studies - functional, morphological, developmental - offer important clues towards a better understanding of hominin evolution, sexual dimorphism, morphological modularity and development constraints. In this volume, people at the forefront of work on the pelvis will process and expand our knowledge in order to explain the evolutionary mechanisms acting on hominin pelvic morphology"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.

Subject

• Pelvis > Evolution
• Pelvis > Variation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-171) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Why should we care about the pelvis specifically? -- Pelvis anatomy -- Functional morphology of the pelvis -- Pelves of the Hominin lineage -- Developmental biology of the pelvis -- Morphological integration, evolutionary processes and variation in the human pelvis.

Call Number

JFF 21-933

ISBN

• 9781107199576
• 1107199573
• 9781316648926
• 1316648923

LCCN

2019038282

OCLC

1120785143

Author

Wall-Scheffler, Cara, 1978- author.

Title

The evolutionary biology of the human pelvis : an integrative approach / Cara M. Wall-Scheffler, Seattle Pacific University, Helen K. Kurki, University of Victoria, Benjamin M. Auerbach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-171) and index.

Added Author

Kurki, Helen, 1973- author.

Auerbach, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Miller), author.

Other Form:

Online version: Wall-Scheffler, Cara, 1978- The evolutionary biology of the human pelvis 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. 9781108185738 (DLC) 2019038283

Research Call Number

JFF 21-933