✦ LIBER ✦
Comparison of diaphyseal growth between the Libben population and the Hamann-Todd chimpanzee sample
✍ Scribed by Simpson, Scott W.; Russell, Katherine F.; Lovejoy, C. Owen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 99
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
The differences in limb lengths and proportions between humans and chimpanzees are widely known. Humans have relatively shorter forelimbs and longer hind limbs than chimpanzees. Humans have a longer period of long bone formation than chimpanzees.
Recent advances in estimating age-at-death in chimpanzees from their dentition have allowed us to reexamine long bone growth in chimpanzees using their skeletal remains and compare it with similar data for humans. A chronological normalization procedure allowing direct interspecific compari-