Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits / Charles Oxnard.

  • Oxnard, Charles E., 1933-
Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

xxiii, 470 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The shape of bones : tension and compression -- A fifty year love affair with spongy bone -- Ghosts of the past : muscles and bones -- Reversing development : from adult to gene! -- Now you see it, now you don't : hidden aspects of form -- The origins of ancient humans : 8,004,004 BC! -- Modern humans and heresies -- Homo floresiensis : a very cold case! -- Brains, babies and vitamin B12 -- New wrinkles on old brains -- The wonder of human evolution.

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    Medical Collection
    QS4 2008O96g
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9789812797421
  • 9812797424
  • 9789812797438
  • 9812797432