Spinal Evolution Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in
The vertebral spine is a key element of the human anatomy. Its main role is to protect the spinal cord and the main blood vessels. The axial skeleton, with its muscles and joints, provides stability for the attachment of the head, tail and limbs and, at t
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al Evolution
Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in Hominoid Evolution
Spinal Evolution
Ella Been • Asier Gómez-Olivencia Patricia Ann Kramer Editors
Spinal Evolution Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in Hominoid Evolution
Editors Ella Been Department of Sports Therapy Faculty of Health Professions Ono Academic College Kiryat Ono, Israel Department of Anatomy and Anthropology
Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel Patricia Ann Kramer
Departments of Anthropology and Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Asier Gómez-Olivencia Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) Leioa, Spain IKERBASQUE Basque Foundation for Science Bilbao, Spain Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos Avda. Monforte de Lemos
Madrid, Spain
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Foreword
Since the publication of J. T. Robinson’s Early Hominid Posture and Locomotion in 1972, there hasn’t been such a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the hominid vertebral column as in this splendid volume. True, this topic has attracted much attention in highly regarded publications (see, e.g., Aiello and Dean’s An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy [1990] and Cartmill and Smith’s The Human Lineage [2009]), but in most cases, the discussion either constitutes part of a broad treatment of human anatomy and its evolution, is focused on a specific structure, or simp
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