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Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution

✍ Scribed by Herman Pontzer; Richard W Wrangham

Book ID: 113712972
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 416 KB
Volume: 46
Category: Article
ISSN: 0047-2484
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.12.006

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