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The evolution of human and ape hand proportions

Human hands are distinguished from apes by possessing longer thumbs relative to fingers. However, this simple ape-human dichotomy fails to provide an adequate framework for testing competing hypotheses of human evolution and for reconstructing the morphology of the last common ancestor (LCA) of huma...

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Autores principales: Almécija, Sergio, Smaers, Jeroen B., Jungers, William L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26171589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8717