The femur of Orrorin tugenensis exhibits morphometric affinities with both Miocene apes and later hominins

2013/12/03 by Sergio Almécija, Melissa Tallman, David M. Alba +4 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/ncomms3888

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Citations

• Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids
• Macroevolutionary Dynamics and Historical Biogeography of Primate Diversification Inferred from a Species Supermatrix
• TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE
• Orrorin tugenensis Femoral Morphology and the Evolution of Hominin Bipedalism
• First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)
• Bipedalism in Orrorin tugenensis revealed by its femora
• A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa
• The Evolution of Body Size, Cope's Rule and the Origin of Amniotes

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• Morphological correlates of distal fibular morphology with locomotion in great apes, humans, and Australopithecus afarensis
• Orrorin [wikipedia]