... distribution Body proportions Abstract The mechanical laws which make possible several characteristic and well-known modes of primate locomotion are reviewed. Biological requirements are fulfilled in small and in large primates by utilizing different mechanical principles. On the basis of the mechanics...

... is a generalized hominid primate that differs from the specialized African apes, the living pongids beeing too derived to represent a model of a primitive hominoid or hominid ancestor. Fossil hominids Australopithecus afarensis / africanus Skeletal anatomy Locomotion Body proportions Folia primatol. 40...

... Hominoid primates Body proportions Age changes Variability Folia primal. 19: 338-359 (1973) Age Changes, Variability and Generic Differences in Body Proportions of Recent Hominoids A dolph H. Schultz Anthropologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich Abstract. The averages and ranges...