Functional and adaptive significance of primate pads and claws: Evidence from New World anthropoids

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-127

  Hamrick, Mark W ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermal ridges; Hand morphology; Primate origins; Tegulae; Ungulae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTAL PHALANX; EPIDERMIS; HAND; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MONKEY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMETRY;

EID: 0031804805     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199806)106:2<113::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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