Vertical Climbing Adaptations in the Anthropoid Ankle and Midfoot: Implications for Locomotion in Miocene Catarrhines and Plio-Pleistocene Hominins.
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Summary
This dissertation attempts to improve the understanding of the kinematics of the talocrural joint during vertical climbing bouts in hominoids and to use these data to isolate skeletal correlates of vertical climbing in extant primates.
- Type
- dissertation
- Published
- 2008-01-01
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 427
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Climbing, Plio-Pleistocene, Paleontology, Ankle, Geology
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