'Putting flesh back onto the bones?' Can we predict soft tissue properties from skeletal and fossil remains?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 484-492

  Shaw, Colin ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arm; Athlete; Bone area and torsional rigidity; Cross section; Forearm; Human; Lower leg; Muscle area; Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT)

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BONE; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPLEXITY; FOSSIL; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MUSCLE; RIGIDITY; SHAPE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 77958170181     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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