Nails and claws in primate evolution

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-114

  Soligo, Christophe ^a,b   Müller, Alexandra E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral primate; Character evolution; Claws; Daubentonia madagascariensis; Nails; Toilet claws

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MAMMAL;

ANIMALIA; DAUBENTONIA MADAGASCARIENSIS; HOMINIDAE; LEMUR CATTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032916463     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1998.0263     Document Type: Article

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