Neandertal humeri may reflect adaptation to scraping tasks, but not spear thrusting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Shaw, Colin N ^a   Hofmann, Cory L ^b   Petraglia, Michael D ^c   Stock, Jay T ^a   Gottschall, Jinger S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEANDERTAL HUMERI; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCRAPING TASK; SPEAR THRUSTING TASK; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLES; NEANDERTHALS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEAPONS;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84864008981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040349     Document Type: Article

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