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Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: Genes, Skin, Energetics, Breathing, and Feeding, Volume II
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Overview
Key Features
- Explores mechanisms underlying trait development, distribution, variation, and evolution, especially with respect to pigmentation, dental formulae, the skeleton, energetics, and temperature-related morphological variation
- Documents the advantages for anthropologists to work at the level of cells, focusing on how genes provide instructions for cells to make structure and how environment affects the behavior of cells
- Illustrates the role cell biology plays in pelage growth and pigmentation, facial morphology, melanin production in pigmentation, dental development and tooth loss, and energy expenditure
- Describes novel methodologies and techniques to analyze environment- and temperature-related influences on phenotypes
- Demonstrates how significant changes in life history occur at the level of the cell
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780367437671 |
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Publisher: | CRC Press |
Publication date: | 09/29/2021 |
Series: | Evolutionary Cell Biology |
Pages: | 260 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Joan Richtsmeier is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in 1985 and joined the faculty of the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1986. There, she focused on establishing new quantitative methods for studying change in biological shape through time, especially in primates, with Professor Subhash Lele. In 1999 she became the 55th woman to achieve the rank of Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since the school opened in 1893. In 2000, Dr. Richtsmeier moved her lab to the Pennsylvania State University. There, her focus turned to joining developmental biology with evolutionary biology, and with collaborators and students, she has worked to integrate the study of mouse models carrying known genetic variants with understanding the biological basis of patterns of evolutionary change. She is particularly interested in early formation of the chondrocranium and how and why cells decide to become osteoblasts and make bone. Dr. Richtsmeier was elected Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) in 2018, received the Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award of the AAA in 2019, and the David Bixler Excellence in Craniofacial Research Award of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology in 2019. She was elected Fellow of the AAAS (Section on Biological Sciences) in 2020. Her work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Trust.
Table of Contents
Volume 2 Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: Genes, Skin, Energetics, Breathing, and Feeding
Chapter 1 Molecular and cellular processes of pelage pigmentation and growth in primate evolution
Elizabeth Tapanes, Jason M. Kamilar, and Brenda J. Bradley
Chapter 2 Cell processes and key genes in the evolution of pigmentation variation in humans
Heather Norton
Chapter 3 Cell processes underpinning the evolution of primate dental form and formula
Cassy M. Appelt, Elsa M. Van Ankum, Denver F. Marchiori, and Julia C. Boughner
Chapter 4 Gene regulatory processes in the development and evolution of primate skeletal traits
Genevieve Housman
Chapter 5 Processes that generate modularity in the mammalian skull: implications for primate evolution
Nandini Singh
Chapter 6 Brown adipose tissue, nonshivering thermogenesis, and energy availability
Maureen Devlin
Chapter 7 Interaction between environmental temperature and craniofacial morphology in human evolution: A focus on upper airways
Laura Maréchal and Yann Heuzé
Chapter 8 Evolution and development of the nasal airways in primates: the influence of eye size and position on chondrogenesis and ossification of the nasal skeleton
Timothy D. Smith and Valerie B. DeLeon
Chapter 9 Stem Cells in Primate Evolution
Emily Durham and M. Kathleen Pitirri