Standardized descriptions of primate locomotor and postural modes

Primates

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 363-387

  Hunt, Kevin D ^a   Cant, John G H ^b   Gebo, Daniel L ^c   Rose, Michael D ^d   Walker, Suzanne E ^e   Youlatos, Dionisios ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Positional mode; Posture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000723568     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02381373     Document Type: Article

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