DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00050. Structural Adaptations to Climbing in the Gibbon Hand<sup>1</sup>

Structural Adaptations to Climbing in the Gibbon Hand1

10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00050

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American Anthropologist (311)

Abstract

In the past, the unusual features of the gibbon hand have been viewed as structures whose function is to keep the thumb out of the way during brachiation. Recent behavioral and anatomical observations, however, indicate that climbing is as important to gibbons in their high, exclusively arboreal niche as brachiation, and that many pecularities of the gibbon hand actually represent structural adaptations to climbing. The functional reevaluation of the gibbon hand makes it clear that complex and often contradictory selection factors are responsible for phenotypic manifestations and that the classification of species into locomotor types, such as brachiator, semibrachiator, and quadruped, misrepresents the species' total locomotor adaptation and obscures the complex of selective factors responsible for structural evolution.

Bibliography

VAN HORN, R. N. (1972). Structural Adaptations to Climbing in the Gibbon Hand1. American Anthropologist, 74(3), 326â334. Portico.

Authors 1

RICHARD N. VAN HORN (first)

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Type	When
Created	20 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 23, 2004, 2 p.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 9 months ago (Nov. 24, 2023, 6:55 a.m.)
Indexed	1 year, 2 months ago (July 6, 2024, 3:11 a.m.)
Issued	53 years, 3 months ago (June 1, 1972)
Published	53 years, 3 months ago (June 1, 1972)
Published Online	15 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 28, 2009)
Published Print	53 years, 3 months ago (June 1, 1972)

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BibTeX

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