The functional significance of skeletal
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William L. Jungers
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Article
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1978
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Slow vertical climbing and clinging are the dominant positional behaviors of the most convincing reconstruction of the primary spatial niche of __Megaladapis__, a giant extinct prosimian from Madagascar. The vertical support model of Cartmill ('74) predicts that clawless mammals should