Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution

Contributors vii

Foreword: Humans from Embryos ix
Gunter P. Wagner

1 Introduction to Evo-Devo-Anthro 1
Campbell Rolian and Julia C. Boughner

2 Chondrocranial Growth, Developmental Integration and Evolvability in the Human Skull 17
Neus Martinez-Abadias, Mireia Esparza, Torstein Sjovold and Benedikt Hallgrimsson

3 The Tooth of the Matter: The Evo-Devo of Coordinated Phenotypic Change 35
Julia C. Boughner

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

5 Evo-Devo 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: Evo-Neuro-Devo 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 Lalueza-Fox

13 Assembly Instructions Included 297
Kenneth Weiss and Anne Buchanan

Index 317