Developmental approaches to human evolution

Contributors vii Foreword: Humans from Embryos ix Gunter P. Wagner 1 Introduction to Evo Devo Anthro 1 Campbell Rolian and Julia C. Boughner 2 Chondrocranial Growth, Developmental Integration and Evolvability in the Human Skull 17 Neus Martinez Abadias, Mireia Esparza, Torstein Sjovold and Benedikt Hallgrimsson 3 The Tooth of the Matter: The Evo Devo of Coordinated Phenotypic Change 35 Julia C. Boughner 4 Genetic Regulation of Amelogenesis and Implications for Hominin Ancestors 61 Rodrigo S. Lacruz 5 Evo Devo Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Human Evolution: Limb Proportions and Penile Spines 77 Philip L. Reno 6 Out on a Limb: Development and the Evolution of the Human Appendicular Skeleton 101 Nathan M. Young and Terence D. Capellini 7 Tinkering with Growth Plates: A Developmental Simulation of Limb Bone Evolution in Hominoids 139 Campbell Rolian 8 Origin, Development, and Evolution of Primate Muscles, with Notes on Human Anatomical Variations and Anomalies 167 Rui Diogo and Bernard Wood 9 The Evolutionary Biology of Human Neurodevelopment: Evo Neuro Devo Comes of Age 205 Bernard Crespi and Emma Leach 10 Evolving the Developing Cortex: Conserved Gradients of Neurogenesis Scale and Channel New Functions in Primates 231 Christine J. Charvet and Barbara L. Finlay 11 Growing Up Fast, Maturing Slowly: The Evolution of a Uniquely Modern Human Pattern of Brain Development 261 Philipp Gunz 12 FOXP2 and the Genetic and Developmental Basis of Human Language 285 Carles Lalueza Fox 13 Assembly Instructions Included 297 Kenneth Weiss and Anne Buchanan Index 317