Tree climbing and human evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1237-1242

  Venkataraman, Vivek V ^a   Kraft, Thomas S ^a   Dominy, Nathaniel J ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMININ; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANKLE JOINT; ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOSSILS; GAIT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALEONTOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHILIPPINES; TREES; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

PAN;

EID: 84872859639     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208717110     Document Type: Article

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