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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Positional behaviors"”.
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Functional morphology of mammalian sacra and caudal vertebrae : implications for tail loss and positional behaviors in extinct primates
… of ape origins, evolutionary relationships and positional behaviors. Despite extensive study of the hominoid postcranial skeleton, researchers continue to face difficulty identifying taillessness and orthogrady from fossil material. In part, difficulties persist because although the Miocene …
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Functional myology of the primate head and neck with implications for hominin evolution
… cited as reflecting postural and locomotor behaviors. Postural and locomotor reconstructions of fossil primates, particularly fossil hominins, have relied upon untested hypotheses linking nuchal muscle form and function to bony morphologies. This thesis addresses the gap in knowledge of …
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Functional morphology of the anthropoid talocrural joint
… joint of anthropoids is frequently used to infer positional behaviors of fossil catarrhines without clear and quantitative data to support these inferences. Specifically, greater medial and posterior trochlear wedging, shallower trochleae and more obliquely oriented groove for the tendon of the …