Vertical clinging and leaping revisited: Vertical support use as the ancestral condition of strepsirrhine primates

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 323-335

  Gebo, Daniel L ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

primate evolution; Strepsirrhini; vertical clinging and leaping

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMBING; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FIBULA; FOOT; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HAND; HIP; KNEE; LEG; LEMURIDAE; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; REVIEW; TALUS; THIGH; TIBIA; WRIST;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; FIBULA; FOSSILS; HAPLORHINI; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; STREPSIRHINI; TIBIA;

EID: 80054114258     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21595     Document Type: Review

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