Estimating humeral torsion on incomplete fossil anthropoid humeri

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 239-257

  Larson, S G ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Cercopithecoides; Dendropithecus; Dryopithecus; Humeral torsion; Humerus; Paracolobus; Pliopithecus; Proconsul; Rhinocolobus; Torsiometer

Indexed keywords

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANTHROPOIDEA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; CERCOPITHECOIDES; DRYOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; PLIOPITHECUS; PRIMATES; PROCONSUL; PROCONSUL HESELONI; RHINOCOLOBUS;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECOIDES; DENDROPITHECUS; DRYOPITHECUS; HUMERAL TORSION; HUMERUS; PARACOLOBUS; PLIOPITHECUS; PROCONSUL; RHINOCOLOBUS;

EID: 0030512906     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0059     Document Type: Article

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