An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and relevant bones, conclusions can be reached regarding the probable musculature, stance, brain size, age, weight, and sex of a particular fossil specimen. The sort of deductions which are possible are illustrated by reference back to contemporary apes and humans, and a coherent picture of the history of hominid evolution appears. Written in a clear and concise style and beautifully illustrated, An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy is a basic reference for all concerned with human evolution as well as a valuable companion to both laboratory practical sessions and new research using fossil skeletons.
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A highly innovative hybrid between textbook and extended review, that will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates and researchers in any related field...Aiello and Dean have performed a major feat in bringing together in the compass of one volume such a mass of information. A couple of hours with Aiello and Dean will save the researcher days and weeks in the library. I believe it will come to be regarded as one of the most important resources for anyone framing a new research project in early hominid studies.
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Its unique blend of anatomy and paleontology will be extremely useful for a wide range of students and researchers in anthropology, anatomy, and paleontology....After reading through the vast array of topics covered by this book, one can't help but feel that the authors and the illustrator have done us a great service.
--Mark F. Teaford, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
--THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
Its unique blend of anatomy and paleontology will be extremely useful for a wide range of students and researchers in anthropology, anatomy, and paleontology....After reading through the vast array of topics covered by this book, one can't help but feel that the authors and the illustrator have done us a great service.
--Mark F. Teaford, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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The First Comprehensive Description of Hominid Form and Function
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Students of Human paleoanthropology should look no further for complete synthesis of anatomical aspects that are proprietary to Hominids-because not only that full treatment is provided on such topics as diachronic trends in qualitative and quantitive development in anatomical features, but recapitulation that contains basic standards of anatomical reporting,complete terminology and also,with full recognition that one important propertes of locomotory system is in its mechanisms for body movement,so that this is not only descriptive work,but one that contains detailed account on anatomical pecularities of Human ancestors,thus providing non-analogues perspective on subject,in full recognition that it is sometimes wrong to accept uncriticaly paralels with modern Humans.Also,some histological aspects are mentioned.This book will provide students with full account on subject of evolutionary anatomy,perhaps one that could became most easily dull,descriptive work under some other concepts,but instead is excelently and logicaly organised textbook.
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Very well written and scholarly. Combines the best of human anatomy and biological anthropology. Recommended for anyone who has a serious interest in this field.
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Anatomy is the science of the structure of animals, and comparative anatomy provides the main basis upon which our knowledge of the course of human evolution is based. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Human Chimpanzee, Chimpanzee Human, Koobi Fora, After Robinson, New World, After Rak, Middle Pleistocene, East Africa, Linnean Hierarchy, After Aiello, Olduvai Hominid, Mean Range, After Napier, After Oxnard, After Susman, After Wood, New Guinea, Olduvai Gorge, South Africa, West Turkana, After Boyde, After Hylander, After Inman, After Latimer, After Ten Cate New!
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Anatomy is the science of the structure of animals, and comparative anatomy provides the main basis upon which our knowledge of the course of human evolution is based. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Human Chimpanzee, Chimpanzee Human, Koobi Fora, After Robinson, New World, After Rak, Middle Pleistocene, East Africa, Linnean Hierarchy, After Aiello, Olduvai Hominid, Mean Range, After Napier, After Oxnard, After Susman, After Wood, New Guinea, Olduvai Gorge, South Africa, West Turkana, After Boyde, After Hylander, After Inman, After Latimer, After Ten Cate New!
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- Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Bernard Wood on 8 pages
- Primate Functional Morphology and Evolution (World Anthropology Series) by Russell H. Tuttle on 5 pages
- Ancestors: The Hard Evidence by Eric Delson on 4 pages
- Human Evolution (Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology Ser.;Vol. 11) by M. H. Day on 4 pages
- Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates by David John Chivers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon on page 149, page 190, and page 289
- The Human Foot: A Companion to Clinical Studies by Leslie Klenerman on page 23, and page 73
- Primate Dentition: An Introduction to the Teeth of Non-human Primates (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by Daris R. Swindler on page 15, and Back Matter
- Human Evolution through Developmental Change by Nancy Minugh-Purvis on page 299, and page 401
- Primate Anatomy, Second Edition: An Introduction by Friderun Ankel-Simons on page 327, and page 459
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