The Hand of Cercopithecoides williamsi (Mammalia, Primates): Earliest Evidence for Thumb Reduction among Colobine Monkeys

Thumb reduction is among the most important features distinguishing the African and Asian colobines from each other and from other Old World monkeys. In this study we demonstrate that the partial skeleton KNM-ER 4420 from Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated to 1.9 Ma and assigned to the Plio-Pleistocene colobi...

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Autores principales: Frost, Stephen R., Gilbert, Christopher C., Pugh, Kelsey D., Guthrie, Emily H., Delson, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25993410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125030

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