Body composition in Pan paniscus compared with Homo sapiens has implications for changes during human evolution

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

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7466-7471

  Zihlman, Adrienne L ^a   Bolter, Debra R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Modesto College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Body composition; Bonobo; Homo sapiens; Human evolution; Pan paniscus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BONE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; MUSCLE; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

HOMO SAPIENS; PAN PANISCUS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLES; ORGAN SIZE; PAN PANISCUS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84935832163     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505071112     Document Type: Article

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