Exploring Phylogenetic and Functional Signals in Complex Morphologies: The Hamate of Extant Anthropoids as a Test-Case Study

Anatomical Record

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 212-229

  Almécija, Sergio ^a,b,c   Orr, Caley M ^d   Tocheri, Matthew W ^e,f   Patel, Biren A ^g,h   Jungers, William L ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^c NYCEP Morphometrics Group   (United States)

^d MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D geometric morphometrics; Shape function complex; Wrist morphology

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CEBIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HAMATE BONE; HAPLORHINI; HOMINID; HUMAN; HYLOBATES; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WRIST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CEBIDAE; HAMATE BONE; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WRIST;

EID: 84919740252     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23079     Document Type: Article

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