Hands of Primates

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 Hand usage in the ring-tailed lemur ( Lemur catta Linnaeus 1758) when solving manipulative tasks
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   Chapter 3 Locomotive and manipulative use of the hand in the Cayo Santiago macaques ( Macaca mulatta )
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   Chapter 4 Different hand postures for pounding nuts with natural hammers by wild chimpanzees
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   Chapter 5 Lateralised handedness, bipedalism and cortical specialisation
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   Chapter 6 The development of prehension in human and gorilla infants
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   Chapter 7 Grasping techniques and hand preferences in Hominoidea
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   Chapter 8 Energetic cost of nut-cracking behaviour in wild chimpanzees
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    Chapter 9 Biometrical characteristics of primate hands
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    Chapter 10 New results concerning the vascularization of primate hands
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    Chapter 11 New results concerning the vascularization of primate hands
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    Chapter 12 Adaptations in the hands of cercopithecoids and callitrichids
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    Chapter 13 Joints and muscles of hands and paws
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    Chapter 14 Muscle fibre and tendon lengths in primate extremities
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    Chapter 15 Biomechanical determinants of reduction of the second ray in Lorisinae
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    Chapter 16 Functional morphology of the human carpus
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    Chapter 17 Biomechanical considerations to explain important morphological characters of primate hands
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    Chapter 18 Elasticity of hand and forefoot tendons
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    Chapter 19 The relationship between the function and the inner cortical structure of metacarpal and phalangeal bones
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    Chapter 20 Investigations on the biomechanical significance of dermatoglyphic ridges
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    Chapter 21 The constructional preconditions of the basic organization of the tetrapod limb
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    Chapter 22 Evolution and the hand
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    Chapter 23 A survey of fossil primate hands
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    Chapter 24 The oldest primate hands: additional remarks and observations
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    Chapter 25 New hand bones of the early Miocene hominoid Proconsul and their implications for the evolution of the hominoid wrist
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    Chapter 26 On the development of the human hand