Spinal Evolution Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in Hominoid Evolution

Spinal Evolution Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in Hominoid Evolution / edited by Ella Been, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Patricia Ann Kramer.

The vertebral spine is a key element of the human anatomy. Its main role is to protect the spinal cord and the main blood vessels. The axial skeleton, with its muscles and joints, provides stability for the attachment of the head, tail and limbs and, at the same time, enables the mobility required f...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Been, Ella (Editor), Gómez-Olivencia, Asier (Editor), Ann Kramer, Patricia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Evolutionary biology.
Physical anthropology.
Animal anatomy.
Developmental biology.
Vertebrates.
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Table of Contents:
  • 0 Yoel Rak. Introduction
  • Hominoids
  • 1 Gabrielle E. Russo, Cranial base in Hominoids in relation to posture and locomotion
  • 2 Thierra K. Nalley, Neysa Grider-Potter, Mikel Arlegi, Vertebral morphology in hominoids, posture and locomotion: I-the cervical spine
  • 3 Liza Shapiro, Vertebral morphology in hominoids, posture and locomotion: II-the thoracic and the lumbar spine
  • 4 Masato Nakatsukasa, The spinal plasticity: changes in spinal morphology due to locomotor changes: the example of Japanese macaques
  • Modern humans
  • 5 Jeannie Bailey, Patricia Kramer, Lumbar lordosis and motion: implications for fossil hominins
  • 6 Eric Castillo, Dan Lieberman, Biomechanical models of the spine, evolutionary perspective
  • 7 Leonid Kalichman, Ella Been, Spinal posture and spinal pathology in modern humans
  • 8 Katherine Whitcome, Sexual dimorphism of the axial skeleton
  • 9 Sandra Martelli, Spinal ontogeny and evolution
  • Methodology
  • 10 Ella Been, Reconstruction of the spinal curvatures based on skeletal material
  • 11 Markus Bastir, The use of geometric morphometrics in the study of the human spine
  • 12 Kate Robson Brown, Infant vertebral cancellous bone ontogeny (Neanderthals and modern humans)
  • 13 Patricia Kramer, Finite Element Analysis of the vertebral spine- implications to human evolution
  • Extinct hominins
  • 14 Scott Williams, The spine of Australopith
  • 15 Marc Meyer, The spine of Early Homo
  • 16 Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Ella Been, The spine of Late Homo
  • 17 Martin Haeusler, Spinal paleopathology in hominins
  • Final chapter, Been et al., Future perspectives into the study of the human spine and its evolution.

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