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SUBMITTER: Dominguez-Rodrigo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4557276 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Domínguez-Rodrigo Manuel M Pickering Travis Rayne TR Almécija Sergio S Heaton Jason L JL Baquedano Enrique E Mabulla Audax A Uribelarrea David D
Nature communications 20150818
Modern humans are characterized by specialized hand morphology that is associated with advanced manipulative skills. Thus, there is important debate in paleoanthropology about the possible cause-effect relationship of this modern human-like (MHL) hand anatomy, its associated grips and the invention and use of stone tools by early hominins. Here we describe and analyse Olduvai Hominin (OH) 86, a manual proximal phalanx from the recently discovered >1.84-million-year-old (Ma) Philip Tobias Korongo ...[more]