Ontogeny of knuckle-walking hand postures in African apes
โ Scribed by Sandra Emiko Inouye
- Book ID
- 112258859
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 922 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2484
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Size variation in African apes (Gorilla gorilla [gorilla], Pan paniscus [pygmy chimpanzee], and Pan troglodytes ["common" chimpanzee]) is substantial, both within and between species. We investigate the possible evolutionary significance of this variation through a n analysis of the ontogeny of size
## FIGUBE I t is a well-known and easily observed fact that the three great apes-chimpanzee, gorilla, orang-utan-when walking in quadrupedal fashion, never place the palms of their hands upon the ground. Instead, the last two joints of the second to fifth fingers are flexed, so that the animal typ