Humeral head shape as an indicator of locomotor behavior in extant strepsirhines and eocene adapids

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-151

  Schmitt, Daniel ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adapids; Humeral head; Locomotion; Morphometry; Multivariate analysis; Strepsirhines

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 34547648885     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000157215     Document Type: Article

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