Baby Gorilla: Photographic and Descriptive Atlas of Skeleton, Muscles and Internal Organs

Diogo, Rui, Pastor, Juan F., Hartstone-Rose, Adam, Muchlinsk

ISBN 10: 1482232979 / ISBN 13: 9781482232974

Published by CRC Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Baby Gorilla: Photographic and Descriptive Atlas of Skeleton, Muscles and Internal Organs
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482232979
• ISBN 13: 9781482232974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of a baby gorilla, this book details the comparative and phylogenetic context of the gross anatomy and evolutionary history of the soft tissue morphology of modern humans and one of their closest relatives. With detailed high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures, it provides an updated review of the anatomical variations within gorillas as well as an extensive list of the synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures discussed. It will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers studying primatology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, and physical anthropology.

About the Author

Rui Diogo is an Assistant Prof. at the Howard Univ. College of Medicine and a Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of George Washington Univ. (US). He is the author or co-author of numerous publications, and the co-editor of the books Catfishes and Gonorynchiformes and ostariophysan interrelationships - a comprehensive review. He is the sole author or first author of several monographs, including the three atlases of gorillas, chimpanzees and hylobatids and the books Morphological evolution, aptations, homoplasies, constraints and evolutionary trends - catfishes as a case study on general phylogeny and macroevolution, The origin of higher clades - osteology, myology, phylogeny and evolution of bony fishes and the rise of tetrapods, Muscles of vertebrates - comparative anatomy, evolution, homologies and development, and Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution.
 
Juan Pastor is Prof. at the Dep. of Anatomy of the Univ. of Valladolid (Spain) and is the director of the University's Anatomical Museum, which houses the largest comparative osteological collection in Spain. He published several papers on comparative anatomy and anthropology.
 
Adam Hartstone- Rose is Associate Prof. at the Dep. of Cell Anatomy and Anatomy of the Univ. of South Carolina. He published several papers on comparative anatomy and anthropology, and chapters in books and one encyclopedia.
 
Magdalena N. Muchlinski is Assistant Prof. at the Dep. of Anatomy and Neurobiology of the Univ. of Kentucky. She has published several papers on primate sensory ecology, early primate evolution, and general comparative primate anatomy.  She has also published several book chapters and one encyclopedia entry about primate comparative anatomy. Her current research focuses on comparative primate physiology and energetics. Although her specialization is strepsirrhine anatomy, she has spent almost two decades studying great ape anatomy.