Brief communication: Locomotor limb preferences in captive chimpanzees (pan troglodytes): Implications for morphological asymmetries in limb bones

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-118

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b  

^a AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Laterality; Locomotion; Posture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HANDEDNESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; POSTURE;

EID: 50049086729     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20834     Document Type: Article

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