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Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits [electronic resource] / Charles Oxnard.

By: Oxnard, Charles E, 1933-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Leverhulme public lecture series: Publisher: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008Description: xxiii, 470 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Anatomy | Human evolution | Physical anthropology | Anatomy | Evolution | Adaptation, Physiological | Anthropology, Physical | Research -- methodsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 611 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The shape of bones : tension and compression -- A fifty year love affair with spongy bone -- Ghosts of the past : muscles and bones -- Reversing development : from adult to gene! -- Now you see it, now you don't : hidden aspects of form -- The origins of ancient humans : 8,004,004 BC! -- Modern humans and heresies -- Homo floresiensis : a very cold case! -- Brains, babies and vitamin B12 -- New wrinkles on old brains -- The wonder of human evolution.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The shape of bones : tension and compression -- A fifty year love affair with spongy bone -- Ghosts of the past : muscles and bones -- Reversing development : from adult to gene! -- Now you see it, now you don't : hidden aspects of form -- The origins of ancient humans : 8,004,004 BC! -- Modern humans and heresies -- Homo floresiensis : a very cold case! -- Brains, babies and vitamin B12 -- New wrinkles on old brains -- The wonder of human evolution.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.