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Embryogeny and phylogeny of the human posture
A new glance at the future of our species
1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages : : illustrations.)
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The Vertical Human: Philosopher of Nature -- ch. 1 Anthropos, the First of the Animals -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Epistemology according to Georges Cuvier -- 1.1.2. From the metaphysics of beings to the physics of their matter -- 1.1.3. Mathematics, forms and women physicians -- 1.1.4. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: an anthropology of ideas or a certain idea of anthropology -- 1.2. Anthropos, the axis of the world -- 1.2.1. Man, a vertical anatomy -- 1.2.2. Apes and humans -- 1.2.3. The generation of anthropos: the father as a model, the mother by default -- ch. 2 From Aristotle to the 16th Century: The Eclipse of Science -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Comparative anatomy of apes and humans from Aristotle to Galen -- 2.2.1. The Museum of Alexandria -- 2.3. Decadence and rebirth of natural philosophy and human anatomy -- 2.3.1. Albertus Magnus, the Aristotle of a reborn Europe -- 2.3.2. The first lay schools of medicine in Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries -- 2.3.3. Instant of grace: Leonardo da Vinci, from the elusive movement to the restitution of the soul -- ch. 3 The 16th Century: From Generation to Human Physiology -- 3.1. Ambroise Pare (1510 -- 1590), father of French surgery with more than barbaric Latin -- 3.2. Andre Vesale (1514 -- 1564), the audacity of objectivity in the face of Galen's anthropo-simian chimeras -- 3.3. Jacobus Sylvius (1478 -- 1555): defending Galen body and soul -- 3.4. Gabriele Fallope (1523 -- 1562): freedom of dissection, the fine anatomy of the ear and cranial base -- 3.5. Bartolomeo Eustachi (Bartholomaeus Eustachius, c. 1523 -- 1562): the human fetus and the monkey -- 3.6. The embryo, the fetus and blood circulation with the maternal body -- 3.6.1. Arantius (1530 -- 1589): the development of the human fetus -- 3.6.2. D'Aquapendente (1533 -- 1619): the father of embryology -- 3.6.3. William Harvey (1578 -- 1657): the demonstration of blood circulation, vital for the development of the embryo -- 3.7. On human generation and fetal development -- 3.7.1. Gabriel de Zerbis (1455 -- 1505) -- 3.7.2. Volcher Coiter (1534 -- 1576) -- 3.7.3. Felix Platter (Foelix Platerus, 1536 -- 1614), the first optician -- 3.8. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608 -- 1679): the dynamic geometry of the vertical body -- ch. 4 Centuries in Search of Light -- 4.1. Independent Academies of Sciences -- 4.1.1. Gerolamo Cardano: of the necessity and the form of Man, by spontaneous generation or by putrefaction? -- 4.1.2. Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585 -- 1619), Prince of the libertines -- 4.1.3. Man absent from himself, God always as explanation -- 4.2. The beginning of Man and Russian dolls -- 4.2.1. From microscope to microcosm -- 4.2.2. The created species are not immortal -- ch. 5 The Century of Naturalistic Enlightenment -- 5.1. The Jar din royal des plantes: a new natural history of animals -- 5.1.1. Georges Leclerc, Count of Buffon -- 5.1.2. A research organization independent of biblical dogmatism -- 5.1.3. The history of the Earth as a premise of the natural history of Man -- 5.1.4. Man is the last internal mold created on the Earth -- 5.1.5. The species according to Buffon -- 5.1.6. A fundamental principle: the subordination of external parties to internal parties -- pt. 2 The Place of Humans among Current and Fossilized Primates -- ch. 6 From Natural Curiosity Cabinets to the First Primate Collections -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.1.1. Conrad Gessner (1516 -- 1565), the first great collector of natural curiosities -- 6.1.2. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 -- 1605), the first natural history museums in Europe -- 6.1.3. Jacobus Bontius (Jacob de Bondt, 1592 -- 1631): the first wild great ape or Man of the Woods -- 6.1.4. Tulpius (1593 -- 1674), the first description of a chimpanzee -- 6.1.5. Edward Tyson (1650 -- 1708), the first dissection of a chimpanzee -- 6.1.6. Carl Linnaeus (1707 -- 1778), the classification of organisms by species and genera -- 6.2. Comparative anatomy at the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle -- 6.2.1. Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716 -- 1799), the occipital hole and the face unified by geometry -- 6.2.2. Georges Buffon publishes his own Nomenclature of Apes -- 6.2.3. Petrus Camper (1722 -- 1789), the first dissection of an orangutan: the ape does not speak -- 6.2.4. The premises of a gradualist and racial anthropology -- ch. 7 The Transition from the 18th to the 19th Century: Birth of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy -- 7.1. Oryctography or the study of the disposition of minerals and fossils in the soil -- 7.1.1. Francois-Xavier de Burtin (1743 -- 1818), a leading European collector -- 7.1.2. The French Revolution: naturalist audacity faced with the fury of the Terror (1792 -- 1794) -- 7.1.3. The premises of the Industrial Revolution: energy and thermodynamics -- 7.2. Georges Cuvier (1769 -- 1832), the French Revolution and the revolution of the globe -- 7.2.1. The natural sciences at the heart of the Terror -- 7.2.2. Karl Kielmeyer, Georges Cuvier's great comrade and gifted youngster -- 7.2.3. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, the unity of the animal composition plan -- 7.2.4. The laws of animal oeconomy -- 7.2.5. Humans have no fossil ancestor according to Cuvier -- 7.2.6. The division between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire or the distinction between micro- and macroevolution -- ch. 8 The Slow Recognition of Humans' Simian Origins -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck or the audacity of the transformist theory of organization plans -- 8.2.1. The causes of the main physical facts or what is life (1780) -- 8.2.2. Transformism or the first formulation of evolution -- 8.2.3. Lamarck and the first theory of the common origins of the orangutan, the chimpanzee and Homo sapiens -- 8.2.4. The anatomical origins of Homo sapiens, a break with his own statements -- 8.2.5. Which system to classify humans: the separation of organizational plans or the variety of a single plan? -- ch. 9 Embryology, Fixist Anthropology and the Neanderthal Man -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.1.1. The theory of epigenesis (Wolff 1759) -- 9.1.2. Karl von Baer discovers the formation of the ovum (1827) -- 9.1.3. Johann Meckel (1781-1833), the revolution of the 11 laws of embryogenesis -- 9.2. The origins of the vertical anatomy of humans: between poetic metaphysics, transcendental finality and climatic influences -- 9.3. Great confusion between Linnaean nesting classification and the emergence of organizational plans -- 9.3.1. Etienne Serres (1786 -- 1868) and the transcendental anatomy of the embryo (1832) -- 9.3.2. Alfred Velpeau (1795 -- 1867) and the cranio-caudal gradient of embryogenesis (1832) -- 9.3.3. The first Chair of Embryogeny at the College de France (1844) -- 9.3.4. The discovery of the gorilla, 1847 -- 1852 -- 9.3.5. Franz Fick (1813 -- 1858), a giant step forward: the study of the internal base of the skull (1853 -- 1862) -- 9.3.6. Rudolf Virchow (1821 -- 1902), a major study on the relations between the internal base and the external face -- 9.3.7. Neanderthal Man (1856), a lost human species -- 9.3.8. Herman Welcker (1822 -- 1897), comparative internal growth of the orangutan and Homo sapiens (1862) -- ch. 10 The Decline of Transformism at the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle -- 10.1. The decline of transformism despite the discovery of the first monkey fossils -- 10.1.1. First manmade objects contemporary to Diluvium, 1842 -- 10.1.2. Edouard Lartet: the first great fossil monkey to the rescue of Cuvier (1856) -- 10.1.3. Paris, capital of transformist anthropology and free thought (1848 -- 1857) -- 10.2. A theory lacking internal coherence -- 10.2.1. Gradualist classification and discontinuities between fossil genera: an impasse -- 10.2.2. Charles Darwin (1809 -- 1882) knocked at the door of the French Academy of Sciences and convinced no one -- 10.2.3. A progression toward scientific formalization of the evolution of structures: the geometrical study of the skull -- 10.2.4. The cart before the horse: the Linnaean classification of fossils before understanding of processes -- 10.2.5. The transmission of acquired characteristics and Charles Darwin's gemmules -- 10.2.6. The faults of Charles Darwin against Armand de Quatrefages -- ch.
11 Transformist Paleontology Inaugurates the 20th Century -- 11.1. The rebirth -- 11.1.1. Albert Gaudry (1827 -- 1908), a palace in the Jar din des plantes for paleontology and comparative anatomy -- 11.1.2. Paul Gervais (1816 -- 1879) at the Chair of Anatomy and the first bipedal fossil monkey -- 11.1.3. Haeckel (1834 -- 1919), on the way to formalizing processes -- 11.1.4. Haeckel, a new hope -- 11.1.5. Phylogenesis and embryogenesis, a reversed logic -- 11.2. Natural selection and the scale of human societies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comparative anatomy and posture of animal and human set ; volume 3
Biology series (International Society for Technology in Education)