Description
Chimpanzees, including common chimpanzees and bonobos, are our closest living relatives. Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Chimpanzees, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the genus Pan, adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of Gorilla and Hylobates previously published by the same authors. These three books are part of a series of monographs that will set out the comparative and phylogenetic context of the gross anatomy and evolutionary history of the soft tissue morphology of modern humans and their closest relatives. The present atlas, which includes detailed high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures from most anatomical regions of the body as well as textual information about the attachments, innervation, function and weight of the respective muscles, is based on dissections of up to 12 chimpanzees and on an extensive review of the literature. It provides an updated review of the anatomical variations within chimpanzees as well as an extensive list of the synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures we discuss. 163 p.
- Rui Diogo. Assistant Professor, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC (USA); and Resource Faculty, Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA).
- Joseph M. Potau. Professor, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Barcelona (Spain); and Director of the University’s Center for the Study of Comparative and Evolutionary Anatomy.
- Juan F. Pastor. Professor at the Department of Anatomy, University of Valladolid (Spain); and Director of the University’s Anatomical Museum. Et al…
- Publication date (digital version): 2013-02 – Barnes & Noble; Copyright © 2013 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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