Research Article
Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus
- Matthew M. Skinner1,2,3,4,*,
- Nicholas B. Stephens3,
- Zewdi J. Tsegai3,
- Alexandra C. Foote2,
- N. Huynh Nguyen3,
- Thomas Gross5,
- Dieter H. Pahr5,
- Jean-Jacques Hublin3,
- Tracy L. Kivell1,3,4,*
- 1School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK.
- 2Department of Anthropology, University College London, London WC1H 0BW, UK.
- 3Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig Germany.
- 4Evolutionary Studies Institute and Centre for Excellence in PalaeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa.
- 5Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040 Wien, Vienna, Austria.
- ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: m.skinner{at}kent.ac.uk (M.M.S.); t.l.kivell{at}kent.ac.uk (T.L.K.)
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Science 23 Jan 2015:
Vol. 347, Issue 6220, pp. 395-399
DOI: 10.1126/science.1261735
