Another look at the australopithecine hip

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 455-476

  Maclatchy, Laura M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. africanus; A. robustus; Australopithecus afarensis; Computer simulations; Hip function; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOIDEA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HIP JOINT; LOCOMOTION;

EID: 0030435628     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0071     Document Type: Article

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