A partial skeleton of the fossil great ape Hispanopithecus laietanus from Can Feu and the mosaic evolution of crown-hominoid positional behaviors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Alba, David M ^a   Almécija, Sergio ^a,b   Casanovas Vilar, Isaac ^a   Méndez, Josep M ^a   Moyà Solà, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOLOGY; APE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CLADISTICS; ELBOW; EVOLUTION; EXTANT SPECIES; EXTINCT SPECIES; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FOSSIL HOMINOID; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAND PALM; HISPANOPITHECUS LAIETANUS; LOCOMOTION; MIOCENE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OLECRANON; PHYLOGENY; QUADRUPEDALISM; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER GIRDLE; SKELETON; SKULL; SPAIN; THORAX; ULNA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84862661131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039617     Document Type: Article

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