The hand of Homo naledi.

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Published in Nat Commun on October 06, 2015

Authors

Tracy L Kivell1,2,3, Andrew S Deane3,4, Matthew W Tocheri5,6, Caley M Orr7, Peter Schmid3,8, John Hawks3,9, Lee R Berger3, Steven E Churchill3,10

Author Affiliations

1: Animal Postcranial Evolution Lab, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Marlowe Building, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK.
2: Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
3: Evolutionary Studies Institute and Centre for Excellence in PalaeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa.
4: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, MN 224 UK Medical Centre, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0098, USA.
5: Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada P7K 1L8.
6: Human Origins Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560, USA.
7: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.
8: Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zuerich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zuerich CH-8057, Switzerland.
9: Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53593, USA.
10: Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Box 90383, Durham, North Carolina 27708-9976, USA.

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