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The Leverhulme Trust (UK) required Charles Oxnard to present a series of public lectures during his tenure of a Leverhulme Professorship at University College, London. The lectures had to be understandable not only to undergraduate and graduate students and colleagues, but also to the interested lay...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oxnard, Charles E., 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2008.
Colección:Leverhulme public lecture series.
Temas:
Anatomy.
Human evolution.
Physical anthropology.
Adaptation (Physiology)
Evolution.
Adaptation, Physiological
Anthropology, Physical
Research Design
Animal Structures
Anatomy
Anatomie.
Êtres humains > Évolution.
Anthropologie physique.
Adaptation (Physiologie)
anatomy.
physical anthropology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
MEDICAL > Anatomy.
Human evolution
Physical anthropology
Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The shape of bones : tension and compression
  • A fifty year love affair with spongy bone
  • Ghosts of the past : muscles and bones
  • Reversing development : from adult to gene!
  • Now you see it, now you don't : hidden aspects of form
  • The origins of ancient humans : 8,004,004 BC!
  • Modern humans and heresies
  • Homo floresiensis : a very cold case!
  • Brains, babies and vitamin B12
  • New wrinkles on old brains
  • The wonder of human evolution.

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