Mammalian Jaw - A Mechanical Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Walter Stalker Greaves is a retired affiliate of the Department of Oral Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago. He spent his career teaching anatomy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and human gross anatomy in the College of Dentistry, University of Illinois, Chicago. His research concentrated on the mammalian jaw mechanism, using very simple mechanical models to explain how the jaw works and why the jaw mechanism has evolved to essentially the same basic structure. Klappentext Using simple mechanical models, this book examines the structural features and evolution of the mammalian jaw mechanism. Zusammenfassung Using simple mechanical models this book examines the essential structural features and evolution of the mammalian jaw. Particular emphasis is placed on a study of the factors that contributed to the evolution of a basic jaw mechanism that is essentially the same! if not identical! in the majority of mammals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The jaw viewed as a two-dimensional lever; 2. The jaw viewed as a three-dimensional lever; 3. Vector inclination and joint location; 4. Skull torsion and the postorbital bar; General summary; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Stalker Greaves, Walter Stalker (University of Illinois Greaves
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107016224
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01622-4
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, Animal Physiology, Zoology and animal sciences, Zoology: Mammals, Zoology: mammals (mammalogy)