Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Bonobos With Notes on the Weight, Attachments, Variations, and Innervation of the Muscles and Comparisons with Common Chimpanzees and Humans
Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. However, surprisingly, the information about the soft tissues of bonobos is very scarce, making it difficult to discuss and understand human evolution. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and Aims
- Methodology and Material
- Head and neck musculature
- Pectoral and upper limb musculature
- Trunk and back musculature
- Diaphragmatic and abdominal musculature
- Perineal, coccygeal and anal musculature
- Pelvic and lower limb musculature
- Discussion: Discussion about the major evolutionary implications of our bonobo data, with a phylogenetic analysis and notes on chimp stasis and mosaicism, and how our data also exposes many just-so-stories on human evolution, e.g. by showing that muscles that were supposedly only present in humans and linked e.g. to our bipedalism, etc., are also present as variations in bonobos
- Index