The Evolution of the Human Head /

The Evolution of the Human Head / / Daniel E. Lieberman.

Dan Lieberman has written an innovative, exhaustively researched and carefully argued book dealing with the evolution of the human head. In it he addresses three interrelated questions. First, why does the human head look the way it does? Second, why did these transformations occur? And third, how i...

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Lieberman, Daniel E.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (768 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Heads Up
  • 1 A Tinkered Ape?
  • 2 The Skeletal Tissues of the Head
  • 3 Setting the Stage: Embryonic Development of the Head
  • 4 Modular Growth of the Fetal and Postnatal Head
  • 5 Integration of the Head during Fetal and Postnatal Growth
  • 6 The Brain and the Skull
  • 7 You Are How You Eat: Chewing and the Head
  • 8 Pharynx, Larynx, Tongue, and Lung
  • 9 Holding Up and Moving the Head
  • 10 Sense and Sensitivity: Vision, Hearing, Olfaction, and Taste
  • 11 Early Hominin Heads
  • 12 Ecce Early Homo
  • 13 The Evolution of the Head in Homo sapiens
  • 14 Final Thoughts and Speculations 14 Final Thoughts and Speculations
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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