Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution

Contributors vii

Foreword: Humans from Embryos ix
G¼nter P. Wagner

1 Introduction to EvoâDevoâAnthro 1
Campbell Rolian and Julia C. Boughner

2 Chondrocranial Growth, Developmental Integration and Evolvability in the Human Skull 17
Neus Mart­nezâAbad­as, Mireia Esparza, Torstein Sj¸vold and Benedikt Hallgr­msson

3 The Tooth of the Matter: The EvoâDevo of Coordinated Phenotypic Change 35
Julia C. Boughner

4 Genetic Regulation of Amelogenesis and Implications for Hominin Ancestors 61
Rodrigo S. Lacruz

5 EvoâDevo Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Human Evolution: Limb Proportions and Penile Spines 77
Philip L. Reno

6 Out on a Limb: Development and the Evolution of the Human Appendicular Skeleton 101
Nathan M. Young and Terence D. Capellini

7 Tinkering with Growth Plates: A Developmental Simulation of Limb Bone Evolution in Hominoids 139
Campbell Rolian

8 Origin, Development, and Evolution of Primate Muscles, with Notes on Human Anatomical Variations and Anomalies 167
Rui Diogo and Bernard Wood

9 The Evolutionary Biology of Human Neurodevelopment: EvoâNeuroâDevo Comes of Age 205
Bernard Crespi and Emma Leach

10 Evolving the Developing Cortex: Conserved Gradients of Neurogenesis Scale and Channel New Functions in Primates 231
Christine J. Charvet and Barbara L. Finlay

11 Growing Up Fast, Maturing Slowly: The Evolution of a Uniquely Modern Human Pattern of Brain Development 261
Philipp Gunz

12 FOXP2 and the Genetic and Developmental Basis of Human Language 285
Carles LaluezaâFox

13 Assembly Instructions Included 297
Kenneth Weiss and Anne Buchanan

Index 317