Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Gibbons and Siamangs (Hylobates): With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles - Hardcover

Diogo, Rui; Potau, Josep M.; Pastor, Juan F.; DePaz, Felix J.; Ferrero, Eva M.; Bello, Gaelle; Barbosa, Mercedes; Aziz, M. Ashraf; Burrows, Anne M.; Arias-Martorell, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578087864 ISBN 13: 9781578087860

Publisher: CRC Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the book:

After the extant great apes (i.e., chimpanzees and bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) hylobatids (gibbons and siamangs) are our closest living relatives. However, the information available in the literature about the anatomy, and particularly the musculature, of the hylobatids is much scarcer than it is for the great apes. 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. This 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.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Aims
• Methodology and Material
• Head and neck musculature
• - Mandibular musculature
• - Hyoid musculature
• - Branchial musculature
• - Hypobranchial musculature
• - Extra-ocular musculature
• Pectoral and upper limb musculature
• Trunk and back musculature
• Diaphragmatic and abdominal musculature
• Perineal, coccygeal and anal musculature
• Pelvic and lower limb musculatureFigures
• Appendix I: Literature including information about the muscles of hylobatids
• Appendix II: Literature cited, not including information about the muscles of hylobatids

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1578087864
• ISBN 13: 9781578087860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176