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The coevolution of human hands and feet.
Human hands and feet have longer, more robust first digits, and shorter lateral digits compared to African apes. These similarities are often assumed to be independently evolved adaptations for manipulative activities and bipedalism, respectively. However, hands and feet are serially homologous structures that share virtually identical developmental blueprints, raising the possibility that digi...
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In 1944, after a legal case of disputed paternity in Switzerland, Nievergelt reported three children with deformities like those ofthe alleged father. They had talipes with tarsal synostosis, dysplasia of the elbows with radio-ulnar synostosis and subluxation of the radial head, and dysplasia of the tibia and fibula with exostoses. So far as had been ascertained neither of the parents of the fa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1911
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)47905-0