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What Could Hominoid Fetuses Tell Us about Human Evolution?
Author(s) -
Morimoto Naoki
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the anatomical record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1932-8494
pISSN - 1932-8486
DOI - 10.1002/ar.23789
Subject(s) - ontogeny , period (music) , human evolution , fetus , variation (astronomy) , evolutionary biology , biology , primate , neuroscience , pregnancy , genetics , astrophysics , acoustics , physics
The increasing availability of developmental data on humans and great apes has become essential for furthering our understanding of human evolution. Although postnatal ontogeny is relatively well documented, our knowledge about variation of developmental patterns during the prenatal period among primate species remains lacking. There are various limitations to studying fetuses, but investigating the fetal period, directly or indirectly, has the potential to answer questions that are otherwise difficult to tackle with postnatal examination. Anat Rec, 301:970–972, 2018. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.