Development, Growth and Evolution: Implications for the Study of the Hominid Skeleton (Linnean Society Symposium Series ; No. 20)

Paul O'Higgins and Martin Cohn (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0125249659 / ISBN 13: 9780125249652

Verlag: Published for the Society By Academic Press, 2000

Beschreibung

Top of free front endpaper has former ownership signature of Harvard paleoanthropologist David Pilbeam, who made a brief annotation in one margin and scotchtaped the top edge of the Figure 6 erratum slip over Figure 6 on p. 180; dust jacket has some wear; tight, text clean. xiv, 271 p., illustrated. Interesting provenance. Oversize [otob: 51].

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Development, Growth and Evolution: Implications for the Study of the Hominid Skeleton (Linnean Society Symposium Series ; No. 20)
• Verlag: Published for the Society By Academic Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0125249659
• ISBN-13: 9780125249652
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents a synthesis of the modern approaches to the study of ontogeny and the interpretation of the fossil evidence for human origins. Recent years have seen significant developments in the understanding of the regulation of embryonic pattern formation and skeletal adaptation, and in techniques for the visualizations and analysis of ontogenetic transformations, offering the prospect of understanding the mechanisms underpinning phylogenetic transformation in the skeleton. Advances in developmental biology, molecular genetics, biomechanics, microscopy, imaging and morphometrics are brought to bear on the subject.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Paul O'Higgins began studying medicine at the University of Leeds in 1976. He earned a BSc in Anatomy and developed an interest in primate and human evolution. He returned to complete medical studies, qualifying in 1982. For the next 6 years he pursued his Ph.D. while practicing medicine and lecturing in Anatomy at the University of Leeds. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 and in 1990 was named Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Western Australia. In 1994 he returned to London where he became a Reader in Anatomy at University College. His focus there is in geometric modelling and comparison of growth in relation to evolution and sexual dimorphism.

Martin Cohn obtained a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. From 1991 through 1993, he carried out research on digit reduction in extant and extinct mammals at Kent State University, earning his Master's Degree. In 1993, he began work on a Ph.D. at University College London where he focused on the molecular mechanisms controlling the initiation of limb development and the positioning of limbs along the head-to-tail axis of vertebrate embryos. He moved to the University of Reading in 1997 as a postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary developmental biology. Since 1998 he has been the BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow at the University of Reading. His current focus is the origin of fin and limb development, and molecular basis limb loss, in vertebrate evolution.