Overview
- Broadens your understanding on the origin of the vertebrate head
- Provides a unique multidisciplinary coverage of the “Heads, Jaws and Muscles”, their evolution, and diversification among chordates
- Written in a fluid, easy-to-understand way for both the scientific community as well as biology enthusiasts
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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Reviews
“This edited volume explores the anatomy, development, function, and evolution of the head, skeleton, and musculature of chordates. … it is an excellent, up-to-date reference and resource for advanced students and professional scholars of vertebrate anatomy and paleontology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers.” (T. Harrison, Choice, Vol. 56 (12), August, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raul E.Diaz, Jr. is an Assistant Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University and a Research Associate at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He received his BS from the University of California at Berkeley and his MA from the University of Kansas where he studied frog skeletal development through metamorphosis. His PhD was completed through the University of Kansas Medical Center though his research was conducted at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research where he developed the veiled chameleon as a useful model for studying squamates reptile embryonic development. His research has meandered through his academic career from tropical field biology and systematics to anatomy and cell biology, development and genomics of reptiles and amphibians and now combines all these disciplines (as well as modern techniques in microscopy and imaging) to bridge the disciplines of comparative morphology, development and biomedical research.
Rui Diogo, Associate Professor at the Howard University College of Medicine, was one of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, and won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher selected for first/second places for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal, two times in just three years (2013/2015). He is single-author or co-author of more than 100 papers in top journals such as Nature, and of numerous book chapters. Furthermore, he is the co-editor of five books and the sole or first author of thirteen books covering subjects as diverse as fish evolution, chordate development, human medicine and pathology, and the links between evolution and behavioral ecology. One of these books was adopted at medical schools worldwide, "Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students", and another one has been often listed as one of the best ten books on evolutionarybiology in 2017, "Evolution driven by organismal behavior: a unifying view of life, function, form, mismatches, and trends".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heads, Jaws, and Muscles
Book Subtitle: Anatomical, Functional, and Developmental Diversity in Chordate Evolution
Editors: Janine M. Ziermann, Raul E. Diaz Jr, Rui Diogo
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93560-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93559-1Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93560-7Published: 23 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 303
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology