Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of gorilla

Gorillas, together with chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. However, the information available in the literature about the anatomy of gorillas, and particularly their musculature, is scarce. For instance, many head and neck muscles, including various laryngeal and pharyngeal muscles, have never beendescribed in detail. This lack of information is largely related to the difficulty in obtaining specimens for proper anatomical dissections, making it difficult to meaningfully discuss the homologies, evolution and variations of the musculoskeletal structures of hominoids as a whole and, therefore, of our own species. This first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal Atlas of the 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, innervations 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 obtainedin 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 andresearchers who are interested in understanding the origin, evolution, homology and varia

• ISBN: 978-1-57808-694-8
• Editorial: Science Publishers
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 120
• Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés