Early Pleistocene third metacarpal from Kenya and the evolution of modern human-like hand morphology

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

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-124

  Ward, Carol V ^a   Tocheri, Matthew W ^b,c   Plavcan, J Michael ^d   Brown, Francis H ^e   Manthi, Fredrick Kyalo ^f  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL HOMININ; HAND; HAND MORPHOLOGY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; KENYA; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; METACARPAL BONES;

EID: 84891922924     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316014110     Document Type: Article

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