The primitive wrist of Homo floresiensis and its implications for hominin evolution

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5845, 2007, Pages 1743-1745

  Tocheri, Matthew W ^a   Orr, Caley M ^b   Larson, Susan G ^c   Sutikna, Thomas ^d   Jatmiko, ^d   Saptomo, E Wahyu ^d   Due, Rokus Awe ^d   Djubiantono, Tony ^d   Morwood, Michael J ^e   Jungers, William L ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PATHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

APE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES; WRIST;

ANIMALS; CARPAL BONES; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; WRIST;

ASIA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; EURASIA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS;

EID: 34648826780     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147143     Document Type: Article

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