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标题：Evidence of hominid-like precision grip capability in the hand of the Miocene ape Oreopithecus
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作者：Salvador Moyà-Solà ; Meike Köhler ; Lorenzo Rook 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1999
卷号：96
期号：1
页码：313-317
DOI：10.1073/pnas.96.1.313
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Functional and allometric analyses of the hand of the late Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii (Tuscany, Italy) reveal a series of features that reflect an improved grasping capability including firm pad-to-pad precision gripping that apes are unable to perform. Related features such as hand length, relative thumb length, a deep and large insertion area for the tendon of the long thumb flexor, and the form of the metacarpal 2/capitate articulation are not present in extant or fossil apes. In these features, the Oreopithecus hand closely matches the pattern of early hominids, presumably as a response to similar functional demands.