Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits

Oxnard, Charles E., 1933-

Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits [electronic resource] / Charles Oxnard. - Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008. - xxiii, 470 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps. - A Leverhulme public lecture series . - Leverhulme public lecture series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Anatomy.
Human evolution.
Physical anthropology.


Electronic books.

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