Re: Feet in the Foot - reference and abstract

[frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>]

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny again!   Seems the way the world  
actually works gains publication and survives peer review.  There is  
hope.

Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.cattleranch.org
On May 19, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Colin McHenry wrote:

> I also have a pdf if anyone is interested.
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> Colin
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> Albert Isidro and M. Teresa Vazquez,
> Phylogenetic and ontogenetic parallelisms on talo-calcaneal  
> superposition, The Foot, Volume 16, Issue 1, , March 2006, Pages 1-15.
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> (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ 
> B6WFR-4HNYMFG-1/2/1663c9a36b6f4cb3b00c5db2e8bd3bb1)
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> Abstract: The process of talo-calcaneal superposition is one of the  
> most important steps in the transformation of the reptilian foot  
> (primitive) into the mammalian foot (modern). This change was  
> developed in certain families of mammal-like reptiles and  
> transitional mammals during the Mesozoic age and represents a  
> different path in the morphological development of the foot to that  
> of other dominant reptiles (Dinosaurs, etc.). The talo-calcaneal  
> superposition takes place during the embryonic stage of human life  
> and ends during the primary stages of the foetal period of the  
> same.This study aims to demonstrate the similarities between the  
> phylogenic and ontogenic development of the said morphological change.
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> Keywords: Phylogeny; Ontogeny; Subtalar joint; Superposition;  
> Talus; Calcaneous
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> University of Newcastle
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