Browsing 2015 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Advisor "Ravosa, Matthew J."
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Grasping pressures and phalangeal curvature in primates : an experimental in vivo approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Phalangeal curvature is often used to infer arboreal locomotion in fossil primate species. This is based off an hypothesis of plasticity linked to a loading model that suggests that, when flexed during grasping, a curved ...