Table of contents for Human evolution through developmental change / edited by Nancy Minugh-Purvis and Kenneth J. McNamara.


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Contents:

Foreword

Preface

List of ContributorsPart I - Evolution and Development

1 Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Where Embryos and Fossils Meet

2 Shape and Stage in Heterochronic Models

3 Multivariate Approaches to Development and Evolution

4 Are Some Heterochronic Transformations Likelier Than Others?

5 Sequential Hypermorphosis: Stretching Ontogeny to the Limit

6 Animal Domestication and Heterochronic Speciation: The Role of Thyroid Hormone

7 The Role of Heterochrony in Primate Brain EvolutionPart II - The Evolution of Hominid Life History Patterns

8 Brain Evolution by Stretching the Global Mitotic Clock of Development

9 Natural Selection and the Evolution of Hominid Patterns of Growth and Development

10 Sexual Dimorphism and Ontogeny in Primates

11 Life-History Evolution in Miocene and Extant Apes

12 Dental Development and Life History in Hominid Evolution

13 An Assessment of Radiographic and Histological Standards of Dental Development in Chimpanzees

14 Evolutionary Relationships between Molar Eruption and Cognitive Development in Anthropoid PrimatesPART III - The Evolution of Hominid Development

15 Enamel Microstructure in Hominids: New Characteristics for a New Paradigm

16 Cranial Growth in Homo erectus

17 Peramorphic Processes in the Evolution of the Hominid Pelvis and Femur

18 Heterochrony and the Evolution of Neanderthal and Modern Human Craniofacial Form

19 Adolescent Postcranial Growth in Homo neanderthalensis

20 Between the Incisive Bone and Premaxilla: From African Apes to Homo sapiens

21 Heterochronic Change in the Neurocranium and Emergence of Modern HumansGlossary

Index



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Human evolution, Heterochrony (Biology)Fossil hominids