Divergent patterns of integration and reduced constraint in the human hip and the origins of bipedalism

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1336-1356

  Grabowski, Mark W ^a   Polk, John D ^a   Roseman, Charles C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Morphological evolution; Pleiotropy; Selection natural; Variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIPEDALISM; BONE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HOMINID; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GAIT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HIP; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 79955137569     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01226.x     Document Type: Article

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