Brief communication: Calculating hominin and nonhuman anthropoid femoral head diameter from acetabular size

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 469-475

  Plavcan, J Michael ^a   Hammond, Ashley S ^b   Ward, Carol V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetabulum size; Anthropoid; Femoral head size; Hominin

Indexed keywords

ACETABULAR SIZE; ACETABULUM; ALLOMETRY; ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; APE; ARTICLE; ATELES BELZEBUTH; ATELES FUSCICEPS; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES PANISCUS; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; CEBUS OLIVACEUS; CEPHALOMETRY; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS GUEREZA; ERYTHROCEBUS; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; GORILLA; GORILLA BERINGEI; HUMAN; HYLOBATES; HYLOBATES CONCOLOR; HYLOBATES LAR; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NASALIS LARVATUS; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PONGO ABELLI; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS; PYGATHRIX NEMAEUS; RHINOPITHECUS ROXELLANA; SIMIAN; SPIDER MONKEY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYMPHALANGUS SYNDACTYLUS; THEROPITHECUS; TRACHYPITHECUS CRISTATA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; HOMINID; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

ACETABULUM; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84908248436     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22591     Document Type: Article

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