Functional osteology of the primate carpus with special reference to strepsirhini

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-116

  Hamrick, Mahk W ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lemuriforms; Positional behavior; Postcranial evolution; Wrist morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARPAL BONE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRIP STRENGTH; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SKELETON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULNA; WRIST;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CARPUS, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HAPLORHINI; LOCOMOTION; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0030987569     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199709)104:1<105::AID-AJPA7>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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