Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis

The evolution of bipedalism and reduced reliance on arboreality in hominins resulted in larger lower limb joints relative to the joints of the upper limb. The pattern and timing of this transition, however, remains unresolved. Here, we find the limb joint proportions of Australopithecus afarensis, H...

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Autores principales: Prabhat, Anjali M, Miller, Catherine K, Prang, Thomas Cody, Spear, Jeffrey, Williams, Scott A, DeSilva, Jeremy M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021
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Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33978569
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65897

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33978569
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65897

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