The evolution of the human head
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9780674046368
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: heads up; title: A tinkered ape?; title: The skeletal tissues of the head; title: Setting the stage: embryonic development of the head; title: Modular growth of the fetal and postnatal skull; title: Integration of the fetal and postnatal head; title: The brain and the skull; title: You are how you eat: chewing and the head; title: Pharynx, larynx, tongue, and lung; title: Holding up and moving the head; title: Sense and sensitivity: vision, hearing, olfaction, and taste; title: Early hominin heads; title: Ecce early homo; title: The evolution of the head in homo sapiens; title: Final thoughts and speculations.