Does skeletal anatomy reflect adaptation to locomotor patterns? cortical and trabecular architecture in human and nonhuman anthropoids

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-200

  Shaw, Colin N ^a   Ryan, Timothy M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropoids; cortical bone; high resolution computed tomography; locomotion; trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALOUATTA; ARTICLE; BABOON; BODY MASS; BONE STRUCTURE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAPHYSIS; FEMUR HEAD; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HINDLIMB; HUMERUS HEAD; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SIMIAN; SYMPHALANGUS; TRABECULAR BONE; TRACHYPITHECUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; FEMUR; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84855802964     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21635     Document Type: Article

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