Preface : heads up -- A tinkered ape? -- The skeletal tissues of the head -- Setting the stage : embryonic development of the head -- Modular growth of the fetal and postnatal head -- Integration of the head during fetal and postnatal growth -- The brain and the skull -- You are how you eat : chewing and the head -- Pharynx, larynx, tongue, and lung -- Holding up and moving the head -- Sense and sensitivity : vision, hearing, olfaction, and taste -- Early hominin heads -- Ecce early Homo -- The evolution of the head in Homo sapiens -- Final thoughts and speculations.