A Photographic Atlas for Physical Anthropology

by Whitehead, Paul F.; Sacco, William K.; Hochgraf, Susan B.

• ISBN13: 9780895825728
• ISBN10: 0895825724
• Edition: Looseleaf
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Morton Pub Co

Table of Contents

Definition of the Primates	1	(19)
Introduction	1	(1)
Mammals	2	(2)
Insectivores	4	(1)
Primate Characteristics	5	(7)
Arboreal Hypothesis	12	(1)
Primate Systematics	13	(6)
Body Organization	19	(12)
Introduction	19	(1)
The Human Skeleton	20	(1)
Directional Terminology Applied to the Human Skeleton	20	(2)
Directional Terminology Applied to the Dentition	22	(1)
Planes of the Body	23	(1)
Body Cavities	23	(1)
Homologous Bones of Nonhuman Primates	24	(1)
Major Joints of the Primate Skeleton	25	(1)
Introduction to the Superficial Muscles of the Human Body	26	(3)
Midsagittal Section of the Human Head (MRI)	29	(2)
The Teeth of Primates	31	(46)
Introduction	31	(1)
Tribosphenic Teeth	31	(1)
Tribosphenic Molars in the Fossil Placental Mammal Didelphodus	32	(1)
Molars in the Living Mammal Didelphis virginiana, the Virginia Opossum	33	(1)
Common Tree Shrew (Tupaia glis)	34	(1)
Order Primates	35	(1)
Malagasy Primates	35	(5)
Loriformes	40	(4)
Comparison of Anterior Dentition in Some Species with Dental Combs	44	(2)
Tarsiiformes	46	(2)
Platyrrhini	48	(2)
Family Atelidae	50	(4)
Catarrhini	54	(8)
Superfamily Hominoidea	62	(2)
Family Hominidae	64	(10)
Comparison of Upper Incisors and Canines in Some Monkeys, Apes, and Humans	74	(3)
Comparative Anatomy of the Skull	77	(78)
Why Do We Study the Skull?	77	(1)
Anatomy of the Human Skull	77	(18)
Anatomy of the Human Skull --- Fetal Skull	95	(3)
Anatomy of Skull in Living Non-Human Primates	98	(53)
Comparison of Auditory Regions	151	(4)
Postcranial Anatomy	155	(50)
Introduction	155	(3)
Axial Skeleton	158	(9)
Appendicular Skeleton	167	(3)
Upper Extremity	170	(29)
Articulated Skeletons of Some Representative Species	199	(6)
Craniometry and Osteometry	205	(26)
Introduction	205	(1)
Skull Measurements	206	(14)
Postcranial Measurements	220	(11)
Paleopathology and Non-Metric Skeletal Traits	231	(28)
Introduction	231	(1)
Modification of the Skull	232	(3)
Pathologies of the Skull	235	(4)
Dental Pathologies	239	(4)
Postcranial	243	(7)
Postmortem Carnivore Damage	250	(1)
Non-Metric Variation	251	(3)
Reconstruction of Life History	254	(5)
Paleoanthropology	259	(66)
Introduction	259	(1)
Paleocene Forms	260	(2)
Eocene Primates	262	(9)
``Anthropoid'' Primates	271	(6)
Sivapithecus	277	(5)
Australopithecine Fossils	282	(11)
Homo Fossils	293	(25)
Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens	318	(6)
Post-Paleolithic Anatomically Modern Humans	324	(1)
Index	325