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11 p, 1.5 MB The evolution of human and ape hand proportions / Almécija, Sergio (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Smaers, Jeroen B. (Stony Brook University. Department of Anthropology) ; Jungers, William L. (Stony Brook University. Department of Anatomical Sciences)
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 humans and chimpanzees. [...]
2015 - 10.1038/ncomms8717
Nature communications, Vol. 6 (2015) , art. 7717  
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8 p, 950.6 KB Earliest modern human-like hand bone from a new 41.84-million-year-old site at Olduvai in Tanzania / Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología) ; Rayne Pickering, Travis (University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Anthropology) ; Almécija, Sergio (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Heaton, Jason (Ditsong National Museum of Natural History) ; Baquedano, Enrique (Instituto de Evolución en África) ; Mabulla, Audax (University of Dar es Salaam. Archaeology Unit) ; Uribelarrea, David (Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología)
Modern humans are characterized by specialized hand morphology that is associated with advanced manipulative skills. Thus, there is important debate in paleoanthropology about the possible cause-effect relationship of this modern human-like (MHL) hand anatomy, its associated grips and the invention and use of stone tools by early hominins. [...]
2015 - 10.1038/ncomms8987
Nature communications, Vol. 6 (2015) , art. 7987  
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