- Preface: Heads Up
- 1. A Tinkered Ape?
- 2. The Skeletal Tissues of the Head
- 3. Setting the Stage: Embryonic Development of the Head
- 4. Modular Growth of the Fetal and Postnatal Head
- 5. Integration of the Head during Fetal and Postnatal Growth
- 6. The Brain and the Skull
- 7. You Are How You Eat: Chewing and the Head
- 8. Pharynx, Larynx, Tongue, and Lung
- 9. Holding Up and Moving the Head
- 10. Sense and Sensitivity: Vision, Hearing, Olfaction, and Taste
- 11. Early Hominin Heads
- 12. Ecce Early Homo
- 13. The Evolution of the Head in Homo sapiens
- 14. Final Thoughts and Speculations
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
The Evolution of the Human Head
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$41.50 • £30.95 • €37.40
ISBN 9780674046368
Publication: January 2011
Awards
- Honorable Mention, 2011 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, Archeology and Anthropology Category
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