Oxnard, Charles - Form and Pattern in Human Evolution: Some Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Approaches

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. First edition. Pp. ix, 218; 123 text-figures (line-drawings), 12 black-and-white photo-plates. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, red pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white, sm 4to. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how a variety of statistical, physical, and engineering techniques can be applied to the study of bones of living and fossil primates in order to ""capture the functionally important aspects"" of shape and structure in human evolution (from the jacket flap). No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..

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