Chimpanzee thumb muscle cross sections, moment arms and potential torques, and comparisons with humans.

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology

• Publication date

  1999-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199910)110:2<163::AID-AJPA4>3.0.CO;2-APMID 10502241
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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