New endemic platyrrhine femur from Haiti: description and locomotor analysis.

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  • Siobhán B Cooke
  • Melissa Tallman
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Department of Anthropology, Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. St., Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, USA Department of Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Padnos Hall, Allendale, MI 49506, USA Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, 130 Science Drive, Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708, USA City University of New York and NYCEP, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of human evolution

دوره 63 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012