Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6220, 2015, Pages 395-399

  Skinner, Matthew M ^a,b,c,d   Stephens, Nicholas B ^c   Tsegai, Zewdi J ^c   Foote, Alexandra C ^b   Nguyen, N Huynh ^c   Gross, Thomas ^e   Pahr, Dieter H ^e   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^c   Kivell, Tracy L ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PLIOCENE; TOOL USE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; BODY POSTURE; FINGER; FOSSIL HOMININ; HAND; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB; TOOL USE; TRABECULAR BONE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; METACARPAL BONE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; METACARPAL BONES; METACARPUS; NEANDERTHALS; POSTURE; THUMB;

EID: 84921782725     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1261735     Document Type: Article

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