Genes, skin, energetics, breathing, and feeding
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Genes, skin, energetics, breathing, and feeding
（Evolutionary cell biology / Brian K. hall, Sally A. Moody, editors, . Evolutionary cell processes in primates ; v. 2）
CRC Press, c2022 [i.e. 2021]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Many complex traits define the primate condition, including behaviors as fundamental as locomotion and traits as scrutinized as the dentition, and their study reveals dramatic evolutionary change across the primates. Genetic modifications are at the basis of these changes, but transformation of genetic information into phenotypes occurs at the level of the cell, which is the focus of this book. Contributors summarize novel methodologies to analyze the collective behavior of cells in forming tissues and organs influencing physiological functions and anatomical features that enable behaviors. Our goal is to review current knowledge and encourage others to adopt evolutionary cell biology to aid in deciphering the genotype-phenotype map that underlies the diversification of primates, human variation, and human evolution. The contributors to this book utilize advances in genetic analysis and visualization of cells and tissues and merge evolutionary developmental biology with evolutionary cell biology to address questions central to understanding human and primate evolution.
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
Related Titles
Bianchi, L. Developmental Neurobiology (ISBN 978-0-8153-4482-7)
King, G. R. Primate Behavior and Human Origins (ISBN 978-1-138-85317-1)
Rhys Evans, P. H. The Waterside Ape: An Alternate Account of Human Evolution (ISBN 978-0-367-14548-4)
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 Marechal and Yann Heuze
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
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