Manual digital pressures during knuckle-walking in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 394-403

  Wunderlich, Roshna E ^a   Jungers, W L ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Force; Hand; Hominoid; Knuckle walking; Pressure

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; HAND; HAND FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; FINGERS; HAND JOINTS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRESSURE; WALKING;

EID: 67649604685     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20994     Document Type: Article

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