The semicircular canal system and locomotor behaviour, with special reference to hominin evolution

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 243, 2003, Pages 93-104

  Spoor, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bony labyrinth; Human evolution; Inner ear; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242578488     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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