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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...
Autores principales: | Almécija, Sergio, Smaers, Jeroen B., Jungers, William L. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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