Scaling of lumbar vertebrae in anthropoids and implications for evolution of the hominoid axial skeleton

Primates

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-135

  Nakatsukasa, Masato ^a   Hirose, Youichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cercopithecids; Hominoids; Lumbar spine; Platyrrhines

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; SKELETON;

ANTHROPOIDEA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; MOROTOPITHECUS; PRIMATES; PROCONSUL; PROCONSUL NYANZAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; EVOLUTION; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; RIB; SAMPLE SIZE; SKULL BASE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EVOLUTION; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RIBS; SAMPLE SIZE; SKULL BASE;

EID: 0037637589     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-002-0010-z     Document Type: Article

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