Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies, and Hobbits
Subtitle: a Leverhulme lecture series
By: Charles Oxnard.
Publisher: World Scientific; World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9789812797421; 9789812797438
Subjects: Anatomy; Human evolution; Physical anthropology; Anatomy; Evolution; Adaptation, Physiological; Anthropology, Physical; Research -- methods
Table of contents: title: The shape of bones : tension and compression; title: A fifty year love affair with spongy bone; title: Ghosts of the past : muscles and bones; title: Reversing development : from adult to gene!; title: Now you see it, now you don't : hidden aspects of form; title: The origins of ancient humans : 8,004,004 BC!; title: Modern humans and heresies; title: Homo floresiensis : a very cold case!; title: Brains, babies, and vitamin B12; title: New wrinkles on old brains; title: The wonders of human evolution.