Ghostly muscles, wrinkled brains, heresies and Hobbits / Charles Oxnard.

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2008], ©2008.

xxiii, 470 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.

The shape of bones : tension and compression -- A fifty year love affair with spongy bone -- Ghosts of the past : muscles and bones -- Reversing development : from adult to gene! -- Now you see it, now you don't : hidden aspects of form -- The origins of ancient humans : 8,004,004 BC! -- Modern humans and heresies -- Homo floresiensis : a very cold case! -- Brains, babies and vitamin B12 -- New wrinkles on old brains -- The wonder of human evolution.

Includes bibliographical references and index.