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Book SynopsisEvolutionary developmental biology jumps a step further in Evolutionary Developmental Anthropology to survey the correlation between evolutionary developmental anthropology and primate and human morphological evolution.
Table of ContentsContributors vii
Foreword: Humans from Embryos ix
Günter P. Wagner
1 Introduction to Evo‐Devo‐Anthro 1
Campbell Rolian and Julia C. Boughner
2 Chondrocranial Growth, Developmental Integration and Evolvability in the Human Skull 17
Neus Martínez‐Abadías, Mireia Esparza, Torstein Sjøvold and Benedikt Hallgrímsson
3 The Tooth of the Matter: The Evo‐Devo of Coordinated Phenotypic Change 35
Julia C. Boughner
4 Genetic Regulation of Amelogenesis and Implications for Hominin Ancestors 61
Rodrigo S. Lacruz
5 Evo‐Devo Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Human Evolution: Limb Proportions and Penile Spines 77
Philip L. Reno
6 Out on a Limb: Development and the Evolution of the Human Appendicular Skeleton 101
Nathan M. Young and Terence D. Capellini
7 Tinkering with Growth Plates: A Developmental Simulation of Limb Bone Evolution in Hominoids 139
Campbell Rolian
8 Origin, Development, and Evolution of Primate Muscles, with Notes on Human Anatomical Variations and Anomalies 167
Rui Diogo and Bernard Wood
9 The Evolutionary Biology of Human Neurodevelopment: Evo‐Neuro‐Devo Comes of Age 205
Bernard Crespi and Emma Leach
10 Evolving the Developing Cortex: Conserved Gradients of Neurogenesis Scale and Channel New Functions in Primates 231
Christine J. Charvet and Barbara L. Finlay
11 Growing Up Fast, Maturing Slowly: The Evolution of a Uniquely Modern Human Pattern of Brain Development 261
Philipp Gunz
12 FOXP2 and the Genetic and Developmental Basis of Human Language 285
Carles Lalueza‐Fox
13 Assembly Instructions Included 297
Kenneth Weiss and Anne Buchanan
Index 317
