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Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates
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Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates : Genes, Skin, Energetics, Breathing, and Feeding, Volume II

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1032072784
ISBN-13 9781032072784
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint CRC Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 25th, 2023
Print length 260 Pages
Weight 453 grams
Ksh 9,000.00
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This volume demonstrates the role of cellular mechanisms in the production of specializations defining primates with respect to locomotion, energetics and diet. We highlight how genetic analysis, visualization of cells and tissues, and merging Evo-Devo with cell biology combine to answer questions central to understanding primate evolution.

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
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