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ArticlePeerJ2018

Trabecular bone patterning in the hominoid distal femur.

Leoni Georgiou, Tracy L Kivell, Dieter H Pahr, Matthew M Skinner

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Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  1. Trabecular Architecture of the Proximal Tibia in Extant Hominids.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Leoni GeorgiouSkeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1582-3566
Tracy L KivellSkeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
Dieter H PahrInstitute for Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5822-2082
Matthew M SkinnerSkeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
University of Kent · GBTU Wien · AT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn addition to external bone shape and cortical bone thickness and distribution, the distribution and orientation of internal trabecular bone across individuals and species has yielded important functional information on how bone adapts in response to load. In particular, trabecular bone analysis has played a key role in studies of human and nonhuman primate locomotion and has shown that species with different locomotor repertoires display distinct trabecular architecture in various regions of the skeleton. In this study, we analyse trabecular structure throughout the distal femur of extant hominoids and test for differences due to locomotor loading regime.

methodsMicro-computed tomography scans of

resultsResults indicate some significant differences between taxa, with the most prominent being higher BV/TV in the posterosuperior region of the condyles in DISCUSSION: The trabecular architecture of the distal femur holds a functional signal linked to habitual behaviour; however, there was more similarity across taxa and greater intraspecific variability than expected. Specifically, there was a large degree of overlap in trabecular structure across the sample, and

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Functional morphologyHominoidLocomotionTrabecular bone

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PMID30002981
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