The anatomical-functional structure with which human beings are equipped today has its roots in our evolutionary history: knowing the latter helps us understand why our body looks like this and functions in this way. Every living being, including Homo sapiens, is the result of a progressive stratification of forms that have adapted to environmental pressures which have shaped their morphology from deep time until today. Our masticatory apparatus (evolutionarily very recent) began to develop with the advent of mammals around 250 million years ago, structuring itself with a unique morphology and function, closely linked to the upright posture typical of the Homo genus and to globular encephalisation, a characterizing peculiarity Homo sapiens.
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Book Title
Origini, forma e (dis)funzioni dell’apparato masticatorio in Homo sapiens
Book Subtitle
Una prospettiva darwiniana
Authors
Andrea Papini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
512
Publication Year
2023
Copyright Information
© 2023 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0260-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0259-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0260-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919