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Título: El primer viaje de nuestra vida
Autor: Juan Luis Arsuaga
Edita: Ediciones Temas De Hoy, 2012
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda con solapas.
Número de páginas: 432 p.
ISBN: 978-8499981802
Cuando los autores de habla inglesa se refieren al paso del feto a través del canal del parto, utilizan la palabra travel, es decir, viaje, y a eso es a lo que se refiere el título de este libro. Una travesía especialmente complicada en nuestra especie que culmina con la llegada al mundo de una nueva persona. Este asombroso viaje nos permite abordar muchos de los problemas de la evolución humana porque el extraño modo en que nacemos no es una anécdota, sino que está íntimamente vinculado a nuestra naturaleza.
¿Por qué el parto es doloroso?, ¿Cómo parían nuestras antepasadas?, ¿Por qué nacen nuestros niños tan desvalidos?
Como si fuese el guía de una gran exposición, Juan Luis Arsuaga nos acompaña en El primer viaje de nuestra vida por la fascinante aventura de la evolución humana a través de la historia natural del parto, además de ofrecernos una brillante lección de anatomía. Y aunque da respuestas a estas y a otras preguntas, también plantea otras tantas incógnitas. Todavía queda mucho por saber sobre el viaje más importante de nuestra vida.
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Título: Digging up bones
Autor: Don R. Brothwell
Edita: Trustees of the British Museum, 1972
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda con solapas.
Número de páginas: 196 p.
ISBN: 0565007041
Every year hundreds of human skeletal remains are brought to the surface by engineering works, quarrying or planned archaeological exploration. These remains provide vital clues to unraveling man’s antiquity―their position and location, relation to other remains, state of preservation and «medical» condition all provide important information on ancient man and his living environment. Inferences regarding length of life, nutritional standards, diseases and origin of injuries can all be made in bones that are thousands of years old. However, many of these features are open to interpretation and the information gained is only as good as the records and analysis made at that time. The purpose of this book is to describe the many techniques now available for the proper excavation, preparation and analysis of human skeletal remains, so that the most effective use can be made of them. As such it will prove invaluable to both amateur and professional archaeologists, students of anthropology and anatomy, and the layman who has an interest in this ancestors’ modus vivendi.
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Título: The evolution of the human head.
Autor: Daniel E. Lieberman.
Edita: Harvard University Press, 2011
Encuadernación: Tapa dura.
Número de páginas: 752 p.
ISBN: 9780674046368
In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike the heads of other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are short and wide, very big brained, snoutless, largely furless, and perched on a short, nearly vertical neck. Daniel E. Lieberman sets out to explain how the human head works, and why our heads evolved in this peculiarly human way.
Exhaustively researched and years in the making, this innovative book documents how the many components of the head function, how they evolved since we diverged from the apes, and how they interact in diverse ways both functionally and developmentally, causing them to be highly integrated. This integration not only permits the head’s many units to accommodate each other as they grow and work, but also facilitates evolutionary change. Lieberman shows how, when, and why the major transformations evident in the evolution of the human head occurred. The special way the head is integrated, Lieberman argues, made it possible for a few developmental shifts to have had widespread effects on craniofacial growth, yet still permit the head to function exquisitely.
This is the first book to explore in depth what happened in human evolution by integrating principles of development and functional morphology with the hominin fossil record. The Evolution of the Human Head will permanently change the study of human evolution and has widespread ramifications for thinking about other branches of evolutionary biology.
