Author : Paul O'Higgins
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2000-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780125249652
This volume attempts to provide accessible accounts of these advances in developmental biology for the non-expert, together with contributions from hominid palaeontologists, which aim to bring this developmental perspective to bear on interpretation of the skeletal record of human evolution. This combined approach is, as yet, in its infancy but it is likely that it will impact significantly on palaeoanthropology and palaeontolgy in general.
Author : Noel Cameron
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0123838827
Offering a study of biological, biomedical and biocultural approaches, this book is suitable for researchers, professors and graduate students across the interdisciplinary area of human development. It is presented in the form of lectures to facilitate student programming.
Author : J. Matthias Starck
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780195106084
This is the first re-appraisal in 50 years of concepts of development made in birds. This book is a case study in evolutionary diversification of life histories. Although birds have a rather uniform body plan and physiology, they exhibit marked variation in development type, parental care, and rate of growth. Altricial birds are fully dependent on their parents for warmth and nutrition and begin posthatching life in a more or less embryonic condition. At the other extreme, such superprecocial species as the megapodes are independent of all parental care from hatching, and the neonate, able to fly, resembles an adult bird. This book thus attempts to present an integrative perspective of organism biology, ecology, and evolution.
Author : Barry Bogin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521564380
A revised edition of an established text on human growth and development from an anthropological and evolutionary perspective.
Author : Zeev Hochberg
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 2889667480
Author : Brian Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110710341X
Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.
Author : Julia C. Boughner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1118524683
Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging scientific field applies tools and approaches from modern developmental biology to understand the role of genetic and developmental processes in driving morphological and cognitive evolution in humans, non-human primates and in the laboratory organisms used to model these changes. Featuring contributions from well-established pioneers and emerging leaders, this volume is designed to build research momentum and catalyze future innovation in this burgeoning field. The book’s broad research scope encompasses soft and hard tissues of the head and body, including the skeleton, special senses and the brain. Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution is an invaluable resource on the mechanisms of primate and vertebrate evolution for scholars across a wide array of intersecting disciplines, including primatology, paleoanthropology, vertebrate morphology, evolutionary developmental biology and health sciences.
Author : Brian K. Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475730640
A discussion of the neural crest and neural crest cells, dealing with their discovery, their embryological and evolutionary origins, their cellular derivatives - in both agnathan and jawed vertebrates or gnathostomes - and the broad topics of migration and differentiation in normal development. The book also considers what goes wrong when development is misdirected by mutations, or by exposure of embryos to exogenous agents such as drugs, alcohol, or excess vitamin A, and includes discussions of tumours and syndromes and birth defects involving neural crest cells.
Author : Barry Bogin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108386733
This completely revised edition provides a synthesis of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human growth pattern, the biocultural factors that direct its expression, the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that regulate individual development, and the biomathematical approaches needed to analyze and interpret human growth. After covering the history, philosophy and biological principles of human development, the book turns to the evolution of the human life cycle. Later chapters explore the physiological, environmental and cultural reasons for population variation in growth, and the genetic and endocrine factors that regulate individual development. Using numerous historical and cultural examples, social-economic-political-economic forces are also discussed. A new chapter introduces controversial concepts of community effects and strategic growth adjustments, and the author then integrates all this information into a truly interactive biocultural model of human development. This remains the primary text for students of human growth in anthropology, psychology, public health and education.
Author : John Fei
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1999-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780631218890
The central purpose is to borrow and on occasion adapt the various tool kits offered to improve our current understanding of the development process which we see, in Simon Kuznets' terminology, as a transition from agrarianism to modern economic growth
