Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Classification of Flexion Creases on Palms of Apes in Dependence of Locomotion Type
AU  - Munzarová A
Y1  - 2003
VL  - 41
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 41
EP  - 47
KW  - Apes
KW  - Gibbons
KW  - Orangutans
KW  - Chimpanzees
KW  - Hands
KW  - Palms
KW  - Flexion creases
KW  - Locomotion type
N2  - 
N2  - This paper studied the relationship between the course of flexion creases and different locomotion types, i.e, true brachiation (Hylobates sp.), modified brachiation (Pongo pygmaeus) and knuckle-walking (Pan troglodytes, P. paniscus) based on palm prints and photos of apes. The author created a new terminology and classification of primary flexion creases, based on human flexion creases' classification and distribution of volar pads of primates. The new classification distinguishes 3 groups of primary flexion creases, i.e., transversal, longitudinal and oblique groups. According to morphological analysis of palm prints and photos of apes, the variability in coursing and number of the transversal flexion creases correlate to different locomotion types of apes.
ER  -