Giant fossil New World primates: Arboreal or terrestrial?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-101

  Heymann, Eckhard W ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LOCOMOTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; LOCOMOTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATES; TREES;

EID: 0031607955     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1997.0179     Document Type: Short Survey

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