This book is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Hylobates, and adopts the same format as the photographic atlas of Gorilla published by the same authors in 2010. These two books are part of a series of monographs that will set out the comparative and phylogenetic context of the gross anatomy and evolutionary history of the soft tissue morphology of modern humans and their closest relatives. This atlas, which includes detailed high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures from most anatomical regions of the body as well as textual information about the attachments, innervation and weight of the respective muscles, is based on dissections and on an extensive review of the literature.
It provides an updated review of the anatomical variations within hylobatids as well as an extensive list of the synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures we discuss. The atlas will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers studying primatology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, and physical anthropology and to medical students, doctors and researchers who are curious about the origin, evolution, homology and variations of the musculoskeletal structures of modern humans.
Rui Diogo is an Assistant Professor at the Howard University College of Medicine and a Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of George Washington University (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 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, Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Gorilla - with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy and weight of the muscles, and Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution.