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Informationen zum Autor Rui Diogo is an Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and a member of the Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. One of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists! he won several prestigious awards! being the only researcher to be selected for the first/second place for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal two times in just three years (2013/2015). Author or co-author of more than 100 papers in top journals! such as Nature! and of numerous book chapters! he is the co-editor of three books and the sole or first author of eleven books covering subjects as diverse as fish evolution! chordate development! and human medicine and pathology! including a book adopted at medical schools worldwide! "Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students. Julia Molnar is a Research Associate in the College of Medicine at Howard University in the Department of Anatomy. Janine Ziermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine. Zusammenfassung Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscles of all major extant chordate groups. Muscles as different as those used to open the siphons of sea squirts and for human facial communication will be compared, and their evolutionary links will be explained. Another unique feature of the book is that it covers, illustrates, and provides detailed evolutionary tables for each and every muscle of the head, neck and of all paired and median appendages of extant vertebrates. Key Selling Features: Has more than 200 high-quality anatomical illustrations, including evolutionary trees that summarize the origin and evolution of all major muscle groups of chordates Includes data on the muscles of the head and neck and on the pectoral, pelvic, anal, dorsal, and caudal appendages of all extant vertebrate taxa Examines experimental observations from evolutionary developmental biology studies of chordate muscle development, allowing to evolutionarily link the muscles of vertebrates with those of other chordates Discusses broader developmental and evolutionary issues and their implications for macroevolution, such as the links between phylogeny and ontogeny, homology and serial homology, normal and abnormal development, the evolution, variations, and birth defects of humans, and medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface About the Authors Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Methodology Chapter 3 Non-Vertebrate Chordates and the Origin of the Muscles of Vertebrates Chapter 4 General Discussion on the Early Evolution of the Vertebrate Cephalic Muscles Chapter 5 Cephalic Muscles of Cyclostomes and Chondrichthyans Chapter 6 Cephalic Muscles of Actinopterygians and Basal Sarcopterygians Chapter 7 Development of Cephalic Muscles in Chondrichthyans and Bony Fishes Chapter 8 Head and Neck Muscle Evolution from Sarcopterygian Fishes to Tetrapods, with a Special Focus on Mammals Chapter 9 Head and Neck Muscles of Amphibians Chapter 10 Head and Neck Muscles of Reptiles Chapter 11 Development of Cephalic Muscles in Tetrapods Chapter 12 Pectoral and Pelvic Girdle and Fin Muscles of Chondrichthyans and Pectoral-Pelvic Nonserial Homology Chapter 13 Pectoral and Pelvic Muscles of Actinopterygian Fishes
