Evolution of the hominoid scapula and its implications for earliest hominid locomotion

• Published in: American journal of physical anthropology Vol. 162; no. 4; pp. 682 - 700
• Main Authors: Selby, Michael S., Lovejoy, C. Owen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2017
• Subjects: Animals; Anthropology, Physical; Biological Evolution; Fossils; glenoid orientation; Hominidae - anatomy & histology; Humans; Hypotheses; Principal Component Analysis; Scapula - anatomy & histology; scapular spine; serratus anterior; vertebral border; vertebral border; serratus anterior; scapular spine; glenoid orientation

Objectives The higher primate scapula has been subject to many explanations of the putative “adaptive value” of its individual traits. However, the shift from the bone's position in above branch quadrupeds to its more posterolateral position in recent hominoids obviously required fundamental ch...