Ghostly Muscles, Wrinkled Brains, Heresies and Hobbits

by Oxnard, Charles

• ISBN13: 9789812797438
• ISBN10: 9812797432
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-31
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

The Leverhulme Trust (UK) required Charles Oxnard to present a series of public lectures during his tenure of a Leverhulme Professorship at the University of Liverpool and 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
The Shape of Bones: Tension and Compression	p. 1
A Fifty Year Love Affair with Spongy Bone	p. 39
Ghosts of the Past: Muscles and Bones	p. 83
Reversing Development: From Adult to Gene!	p. 135
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Hidden Aspects of Form	p. 177
The Origins of Ancient Humans: 8,004,004 BC!	p. 217
Modern Humans and Heresies	p. 261
Homo floresiensis: A Very Cold Case!	p. 289
Brains, Babies and Vitamin B12	p. 349
New Wrinkles on Old Brains	p. 391
The Wonder of Human Evolution	p. 447
Index	p. 457
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