Bipedalism and arboreality in Australopithecus

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 243, 2003, Pages 79-83

  Clarke, Ronald J ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arboreality; Australopithecus; Bipedalism

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242410789     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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