Did knuckle walking evolve twice?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 171-194

  Dainton, Mike ^a   Macho, Gabriele A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African apes; Carpals; Heterochrony; Homoplasy; Knuckle walking; Ontogenetic scaling

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MORPHOMETRY;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0033081090     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1998.0265     Document Type: Article

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