عنوان

Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of gorilla :

(Number (ISBN

1439851387

(Number (ISBN

9781439851388

Number

b571192

Title Proper

Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of gorilla :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy, and weight of the muscles

First Statement of Responsibility

[edited by] Rui Diogo [and others] ; with a foreword by Russell H. Tuttle.

Edition Statement

1st ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Enfield, N.H.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Science Publishers

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(vi, 140 pages), 53 pages) of plates : illustrations

Text of Note

Front Cover; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. Introduction and Aims; 2. Methodology and Material; 3. Head and Neck Musculature; 4. Pectoral and Upper Limb Musculature; 5. Trunk and Back Musculature; 6. Diaphragmatic and Abdominal Musculature; 7. Perineal, Coccygeal and Anal Musculature; 8. Pelvic and Lower Limb Musculature; Appendix I. Literature Including Information about the Muscles of Gorilla*; Appendix II. Literature Cited, not Including Information about the Muscles of Gorillas; About The Authors; Color Plate Section; Back Cover.

Text of Note

Even though the gorilla is our closest living relative, information about its anatomy, and particularly its musculature, is scarce. This book is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the gorilla. It includes high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures from most anatomical regions of the body, along with textual information about the attachments, innervations, and weight of the reported muscles. The atlas is an up-to-date review of the anatomical variations within gorillas as well as an extensive list of the synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures covered in the book. It also contains dissection observations of other primates and vertebrates, which are crucial for examining and understanding the homologies between the muscular structures of gorillas, humans, and other taxa--"This first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal Atlas of Gorilla differs from previous works done with gorillas and other primates in various ways. First, it includes numerous detailed high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures from most anatomical regions of the body. Second, it includes textual information about the attachments, innervation and weight of the reported muscles. Third, it is based on the dissections of various fresh gorillas, as well as on an extensive review of the works published by other authors, thus providing an updated review of the anatomical variations within gorillas as well as an extensive list of the synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures reported here. Fourth, the data previously obtained in the authors' dissections of numerous other primates, as well as of numerous other vertebrates, proved to be crucial for examining and understanding the homologies between the muscular structures of gorillas, humans, and other taxa. This Atlas will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers working in fields such as primatology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, or physical anthropology, as well as to those medical students, doctors and researchers who are interested in understanding the origin, evolution, homology and variations of the musculoskeletal structures of humans"--

Gorilla -- Atlases.

Gorilla -- Muscles -- Atlases.

Musculoskeletal system -- Atlases.

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Book number

[edited by] Rui Diogo [and others] ; with a foreword by Russell H. Tuttle.

Rui Diogo

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[Book]

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