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Development, growth, and evolution : implications for the study of the hominid skeleton

Title: Development, growth, and evolution : implications for the study of the hominid skeleton / edited by Paul O'Higgins and Martin J. Cohn.
Author: O'Higgins, Paul.
Publication: San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Cohn, Martin J.

Description

xii, 271 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

"This book arises out of a joint meeting of the Centre for Ecology and Evolution and the Linnean Society of London held at the meeting rooms of the Linnean Society in April 1998. The meeting brought together developmental biologists and hominid palaeontologists to discuss how advances in understanding of developmental mechanisms might impact on the interpretation of hominid skeletal remains.
This volume attempts to provide accessible accounts of these advances in developmental biology for the non-expert, together with contributions from hominid palaeontologists, which aim to bring this developmental perspective to bear on interpretation of the skeletal record of human evolution. This combined approach is, as yet, in its infancy but it is likely that it will impact significantly on palaeoanthropology and palaeontolgy in general.
This text is, therefore, likely to be of interest to students of hominid skeletal evolution, skeletal biology and evolutionary developmental biology, and its content should stimulate studies in which skeletal morphology is interpreted in an integrative context, taking account of both ontogeny and phylogeny."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Linnean Society symposium series ; no. 20

Uniform Title

Linnean Society symposium series ; no. 20.

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Contents

1. Development of vertebrate limbs: insights into pattern, evolution and dysmorphogenesis / Martin J. Cohn and Philippa E. Bright -- 2. Biomechanical influences on skeletal growth and development / Tim Skerry -- 3. The evolution of mammalian morphology: a developmental perspective / C. Owen Lovejoy, Martin J. Cohn and Tim D. White -- 4. Development and evolution of the vertebrate skull / Thomas F. Schilling and Peter V. Thorogood -- 5. Ontogeny, homology and phylogeny in the hominid craniofacial skeleton: the problem of the browridge / Daniel E. Lieberman -- 6. Imaging skeletal growth and evolution / Fred Spoor, Nathan Jeffery and Frans Zonneveld -- 7. Quantitative approaches to the study of craniofacial growth and evolution: advances in morphometric techniques / Paul O'Higgins -- 8. Development and patterning of the dentition / Christine A. Ferguson, Zoe Hardcastle and Paul T. Sharpe --
9. Interpreting the hominid dentition: ontogenetic and phylogenetic aspects / Gary T. Schwartz and Christopher Dean -- 10. Morphometrics of the primate skeleton and the functional and developmental underpinnings of species diversity / Charles E. Oxnard.

ISBN

0125249659

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Columbia University Libraries