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Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor

Despite decades of debate, it remains unclear whether human bipedalism evolved from a terrestrial knuckle-walking ancestor or from a more generalized, arboreal ape ancestor. Proponents of the knuckle-walking hypothesis focused on the wrist and hand to find morphological evidence of this behavior in...

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Main Authors: Kivell, Tracy L., Schmitt, Daniel
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2009
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732797/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19667206
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901280106
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