Violation of Dollo's law: Evidence of muscle reversions in primate phylogeny and their implications for the understanding of the ontogeny, evolution, and anatomical variations of modern humans

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3267-3276

  Diogo, Rui ^a   Wood, Bernard ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Dollo's law; Muscles; Phylogeny; Primates; Reversions; Variations

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MUSCLE; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANATOMIC VARIATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES;

PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 84867102866     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01621.x     Document Type: Article

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