title: Features of the prosimian wrist joint in relation to hominoid specializations.
abstract: The wrist joint of lemuroid and lorisoid prosimians is examined in relation to variations among higher primates, particularly the specializations characteristic of hominoids. The lorisines Nycticebus and Perodicticus share a metrically defined primitive morphopattern with other prosimians and cercopithecine monkeys, showing little convergence on apes in carpal bone and distal radius and ulna shape.
mesh_terms: D000717:Anatomy, Comparative; D000818:Animals; D011443:Strepsirhini / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000033:anatomy & histology*