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Hominid palaeobiology: Have studies of comparative development come of age?
Author(s) -
Wood Bernard
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199601)99:1<9::aid-ajpa2>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - heterochrony , paleobiology , human evolution , context (archaeology) , evolutionary biology , hominidae , evolutionary developmental biology , biological evolution , ontogeny , biology , epistemology , anthropology , paleontology , sociology , philosophy , genetics
It is 70 years since Adolf Schultz urged his colleagues to consider how studies of primate growth and development could help them interpret the course of human evolution. This paper considers the evolutionary context of comparative growth studies. It compares and contrasts aspects of the ontogeny of living modern humans and chimpanzees, and considers whether relatively simple models of heterochronic change can account for the modifications which have taken place during the course of human evolutionary history. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.