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This volume demonstrates the role of cellular mechanisms producing traits defining primates such as encephalization and various sensory systems. We highlight how genetic analysis, tissue and cell visualization, and merging Evo-Devo with cell biology combine to answer questions central to understanding human and primate evolution.
List of contents
Volume 1 Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: bone, brains, and muscle
Chapter 1 Introduction: Evolutionary cell biology in anthropological research
Joan T. Richtsmeier and M. Kathleen Pitirri
Chapter 2 The role of bone and cartilage cells in the evolution of bipedalism
Cambell Rolian
Chapter 3 Cellular processes in limb development and primate evolution
Philip L. Reno, Kelsey M. Kjosness, and Allison L. Machnicki
Chapter 4 A muscular perspective on human evolution: Locomotor insights from analyses of primate muscle architecture and fiber type
Andrew S. Deane, Jason M. Organ, and Magdalena N. Muchlinski
Chapter 5 Evolution of the encephalized human brain: How did we become exceptional?
Kevin Alloway and Kevin Flaherty
Chapter 6 Primate Cognition: cellular processes and the developmental mechanisms in brain expansion
Maria Carolina Marchetto and Katerina Semendeferi
Chapter 7 The role of primate embryogenesis in encephalization and neocortical expansion
Andrew Halley
Chapter 8 How gene expression can induce correlated changes in brain and skull systems
Neus Martínez-Abadías, Rubèn Gonzàlez, Roger Mateu, Jaume Sastre, Alexandre Robert-Moreno, Jim Swoger, Susan M. Motch Perrine, Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Joan Richtsmeier, and James Sharpe
Chapter 9 Cellular dynamics and the developmental basis for craniofacial variation in evolution and disease
Nathan M. Young, Ralph S. Marcucio, Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Heather A. Richbourg, and Rebecca M. Green
Summary
This volume demonstrates the role of cellular mechanisms producing traits defining primates such as encephalization and various sensory systems. We highlight how genetic analysis, tissue and cell visualization, and merging Evo-Devo with cell biology combine to answer questions central to understanding human and primate evolution.
