Carving Nature at Its Joints: Mammalian Anatomy, Behavior, Development, and Evolution

Decoding the Body

A Zen master and butcher by profession once said that until he understood the body he had repeatedly to sharpen his knives. After his illumination over the import of joint spaces, he never had to sharpen his implements again.

Carving Nature at Its Joints surveys a variety of mammals from the mole to the rhinoceros. It offers fresh perspectives on anatomy, behavior, development, and evolution and explores Dr. Theodore Grand's methods for getting beyond-beneath, below, behind, and past-conventional top-down reductionist approaches.

You will discover:

• why language is the primary wrinkle in the fabric of science;
• why traditional disciplines are self-limiting;
• why "parts and wholes" are less problematic for physical than for biological and social sciences;
• why the buck stopped at Aristotle's laws of formal logic;
• why we are wedged between opposed cognitive systems.

Author: Theodore I. Grand
Publisher: Brg Scientific
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.34lbs
Size: 10.75h x 8.25w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9798986282107

About the Author
Grand, Theodore I.: - DR. THEODORE GRAND received his undergraduate degree in biology from Brown University and his doctorate in anthropology from UC Berkeley. He was staff primatologist at the Oregon Primate Center and worked with the departments of research and pathology at the National Zoo.Dr. Grand has travelled to Madagascar, Panama, Costa Rica, French Guyana, Venezuela, and Sri Lanka to study hundreds of metatherian and eutherian mammals. He has taught human anatomy in medical school and evolutionary biology at several universities. He has been a featured speaker for Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society on themes of human evolution, science and film technology, and the biological bases of sport. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals, and in 1991, his model for neuromuscular development in eutherians won a national research award from the Zoological Society of San Diego.Underwood, Carol E.: - CAROL UNDERWOOD is an artist and physical anthropologist with a background in primate anatomy. Her research in locomotor mechanics, the form and function of structures of the musculo-skeletal system, and observations of animals provide the basis for her insight into animal movement. An understanding of species evolution and adaptation inform her study of the unique and specialized characteristics of the individual organism. She employs schematic illustrations to create visual engagement with data. She is co-author and illustrator of Ape Anatomy and Evolution.