Long bone shape: A family affair

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 10:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Although humans and chimpanzees move quite differently, muscle attachment sites at their thighbones are similar. This result, which has recently been published by anthropologists of Zurich University in the scientific journal Anatomical Record, has major consequences for the interpretation of fossil hominid finds.

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