Hands of primates /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wien ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1993]
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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.].