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Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits / Charles Oxnard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Leverhulme public lecture seriesPublication details: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 470 pages) : illustrations (some color), color mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789812797445
  • 9812797440
  • 1282441035
  • 9781282441033
  • 9786612441035
  • 6612441038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits.DDC classification:
  • 611 22
LOC classification:
  • QM23.2 .O96 2008eb
NLM classification:
  • GN 281
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: The Leverhulme Trust (UK) required Charles Oxnard to present a series of public lectures during his tenure of a Leverhulme Professorship at University College, London. The lectures had to be understandable not only to undergraduate and graduate students and colleagues, but also to the interested lay public. Furthermore, they were expected to meet and venture beyond present-day thought in the subject. This near-impossible task is reproduced in this unique volume.
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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.

The Leverhulme Trust (UK) required Charles Oxnard to present a series of public lectures during his tenure of a Leverhulme Professorship at University College, London. The lectures had to be understandable not only to undergraduate and graduate students and colleagues, but also to the interested lay public. Furthermore, they were expected to meet and venture beyond present-day thought in the subject. This near-impossible task is reproduced in this unique volume.

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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