Primate origins and the function of the circumorbital region: What's load got to do with it?

PRIMATE ORIGINS: Adaptations and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 285-328

  Ravosa, M J ^a   Savakova, D G ^a   Johnson, K R ^b   Hylander, W L ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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