Hands of primates /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Preuschoft, Holger, Chivers, David John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wien ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Hand use
  • Hand usage in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta Linnaeus 1758) when solving manipulative tasks / S. Schoneich
  • Locomotive and manipulative use of the hand in the Cayo Santiago macaques (Macaca mulatta) / R.G. Rawlins
  • Different hand postures for pounding nuts with natural hammers by wild chimpanzees / C. Boesch & H. Boesch
  • Lateralised handeness, bipedalism and cortical specialisation / P.H. Brenot
  • Development of prehension in human and gorilla infants / M.E. Redshaw
  • Grasping techniques and hand preferences in Hominoidea / M. Christel
  • Energetic cost of nut-cracking behaviour in wild chimpanzees / M.M. Gunther & C. Boesch
  • Hand function
  • Biometrical characteristics of primate hands / F.K. Jouffroy, M. Godinot & Y. Nakano
  • New results concerning the vascularization of primate hands. Part I: the palmar arterial arches in Cercopithecidae, Pongidae, Hominidae and other primates / A. Ikeda & S. Matsumoto.
  • (cont) New results concerning the vascularization of primate hands. Part II: the capillaries in the dermal ridges of fingers and palms in man and monkeys / A. Ikeda & N. Umeda
  • Adaptations in the hands of cercopithecoids and callitrichids / W. Maier
  • Joints and muscles of hands and paws / R. McN. Alexander
  • Muscle fibre and tendon lengths in primate extremities / G.P. Rauwerdink
  • Biomechanical determinants of reduction of the second ray in Lorisinae / U. Nieschalk & B. Demes
  • Functional morphology of the human carpus / J. Koebke
  • Biomechanical considerations to explain important morphological characters of primate hands / H. Preuschoft ... [et al.]
  • Elasticity of hand and forefoot tendons / R.F. Ker
  • Relationship between the function and the inner cortical structure of metacarpal and phalangeal bones / E. Doden
  • Investigations on the biomechanical significance of dermatoglyphic ridges / C. Buck & H. Bar.
  • (cont) Hand development
  • Constructional preconditions of the basic organization of the tetrapod limb / M.F. Gutmann
  • Evolution and the hand / J.M.F. Landsmeer
  • Survey of fossil primate hands / M. Godinot & K.C. Beard
  • Oldest primate hands: additional remarks and observations / J.L. Franzen
  • New hand bones of the early Miocene hominoid Proconsul and their implications for the evolution of the hominoid wrist / K.C. Beard, M.F. Teaford & A. Walker
  • On the development of the human hand / B. Christ ... [et al.].