This colorful book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale reconstructions of the brain and ear of dinosaurs. Insight is provided into the application of modern noninvasive technologies.

Numerous color figures Integration of classical methods and modern imaging techniques in the fields of comparative anatomy and evolutionary morphology

Inhalt
Head Anatomy of Male and Female Mongolian Gazelle A Striking Example of Sexual Dimorphism.- Anatomical Peculiarities of the Vocal Tract in Felids.- The Anatomical Foundation for Multidisciplinary Studies of Animal Limb Function: Examples from Dinosaur and Elephant Limb Imaging Studies.- Locomotion-related Femoral Trabecular Architectures in Primates High Resolution Computed Tomographies and Their Implications for Estimations of Locomotor Preferences of Fossil Primates.- Three-dimensional Imaging of the Manipulating Apparatus in the Lesser Panda and the Giant Panda.- Using CT to Peer into the Past: 3D Visualization of the Brain and Ear Regions of Birds, Crocodiles, and Nonavian Dinosaurs.- Evolutionary Morphology of the Autonomic Cardiac Nervous System in Non-human Primates and Humans.- Erratum.