Development and the evolvability of human limbs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3400-3405

  Young, Nathan M ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^b   Hallgrímsson, Benedikt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Hominin; Integration; Macroevolution; Serial homology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOIDEA; APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LIMB; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARM; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LEG;

HOMO; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 77649260628     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911856107     Document Type: Article

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