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Ghostly Muscles, Wrinkled Brains, Heresies and Hobbits

By: Charles E. Oxnard

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Ghostly Muscles, Wrinkled Brains, Heresies and Hobbits

By: Charles E. Oxnard

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.Each chapter shows what is rarely, if ever, done in scientific papers: how the problems truly arose; how the methods came about; the curious collaborators involved; the twists and turns of thought involved in the stories; the solutions that have so far appeared; and the surprising new ideas that stem from the work. In particular, the part played by serendipity becomes ever more evident. Research is very often a kind of ?Alice-in-Wonderland? task, and both students and the public alike are fascinated by the inside stories of how discoveries are really made. It is precisely this excitement and complexity that is presented in this book.

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9812797432

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Human Adaptability

Future Trends and Lessons from the Past

By: Charles E. Oxnard,Leonard Freedman

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Human Adaptability

Future Trends and Lessons from the Past

By: Charles E. Oxnard,Leonard Freedman

This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1996 ?Human Adaptibility: Future Trends and Lessons from the Past?. The first paper is the annual conference lecture ?Human Evolution Today: Which Way Next?? delivered by Professor Maciej Hennenberg, the newly appointed Wood Jones Professor at the University of Adelaide. This is followed by the transcripts of two papers resulting from a debate on ?Species and Human Evolution,? also from the meeting. The first is ?Species Concept in Palaeoanthropology? by Colin Groves and the second, ?The Problem of Species in Hominid Evolution? by Maciej Hennenberg.There are also a series of individual papers. Two of these are shorter integrative pieces: ?Philosophical Problems in Palaeoanthropology? by Darren Curnoe, and ?A Biological Basis for Generative Learning in Science? by Lynette Schavieren and Mark Cosgrove.These are followed in turn by two proffered papers on specific problems: ?Patterns of Morphological Discrimination in the Human Talus: a Consideration of the Case for Negative Function?, by Robert Kidd and Charles Oxnard, and ?The Specific Status of a new Siwalik Sivapithecine Specimen? by David Cameron, Rajeev Patnaik and Michelle Stevens.The final contribution is one of the longer integrative papers which has characterised each of the prior volumes: ?The Interface of Function, Genes, Development and Evolution: Insights from Primate Morphometrics? by Charles Oxnard.

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9810233566

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9789810233563

Human, Apes and Chinese Fossils

New Implications for Human Evolution

By: Charles E. Oxnard

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Human, Apes and Chinese Fossils

New Implications for Human Evolution

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Human, Apes and Chinese Fossils: New Implications for Human Evolution The series will cover all disciplines concomitant to full University studies.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622090737

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9789622090736

Anatomical Terms and Their Derivation

By: F. Peter Lisowski,Charles E. Oxnard

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Anatomical Terms and Their Derivation

By: F. Peter Lisowski,Charles E. Oxnard

Anatomical terms are the vocabulary of medicine. Anatomy began as a descriptive science in the days when Latin was the universal scientific language. Early anatomists described the structures they saw in that language, comparing them to common and familiar objects, or borrowing terms from the Greek and Arabic masters before them. In anatomic terminology, common Latin or Greek words are used as such for any part of the body for which the ancients had a name. For many other structures, scientific names have been invented either by using certain classical words which appear to be descriptive of the part concerned, or commonly, by combining Greek or Latin roots to form a new compound term. Memorization of such terms without understanding their meaning can lead to mental indigestion. As an aid to comprehension, this book also presents the roots from which many of these descriptive terms and compounds are derived. For practical convenience, the book is organized into abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, general terms common to all body regions, short lists for each major body part, and an alphabetical list covering the entire body. This pocket-sized handbook is essential for anyone wishing to learn and understand medical terms.

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9812706860

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Ghostly Muscles, Wrinkled Brains, Heresies and Hobbits

Ghostly Muscles, Wrinkled Brains, Heresies and Hobbits

Human Adaptability

Human Adaptability

Human, Apes and Chinese Fossils

Human, Apes and Chinese Fossils

Anatomical Terms and Their Derivation

Anatomical Terms and Their Derivation

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