Handbook of Muscle Variations and Anomalies in Humans: A Compendium for Medical Education, Physicians, Surgeons, Anthropologists, Anatomists, and Biologists

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of muscle variations and anomalies in the normal human population,filling a knowledge gap between what is taught,learned,and documented in textbooks and atlases. It is of interest to students,professors,and researchers in biological anthropology,comparative anatomy,functional morphology,zoology,and evolutionary and developmental biology,as well as to clinicians and practicing health professionals.

Format: Hardback
Length: 378 pages
Publication date: 09 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The majority of textbooks and atlases of human anatomy only provide a limited account of muscle variations in the normal human population or muscle anomalies within congenital malformations. As a result, there exists a misconception about what constitutes normal human anatomy and what it actually looks like. In reality, every individual within the normal population possesses at least a few muscle variations, and millions of individuals are born globally each year with muscle anomalies. A significant knowledge gap exists between what is taught, what students learn, what textbooks and atlases depict, and what occurs in nature and within our species. This handbook aims to bridge this gap by offering the following key features: 1) Providing a comparative evolutionary context for muscle variations and defects in humans. 2) Summarizing the major types of variations and anomalies found in humans. 3) Including didactic figures for a visually engaging learning experience. This book is of interest to students, professors, and researchers in biological anthropology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, and evolutionary and developmental biology, as well as to clinicians and practicing health professionals.

Weight: 884g
Dimension: 280 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367538620