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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2021

Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity.

Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Daniel Haeufle, Ioanna Anastopoulou, Konstantinos Moraitis, Gerhard Hotz, Vangelis Tourloukis, Katerina Harvati

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
74.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Fotios Alexandros KarakostisPaleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
Daniel HaeufleHertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Strasse 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Nobelstrasse 15, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Ioanna AnastopoulouDepartment of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mikras Asias Street 75, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos MoraitisDepartment of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mikras Asias Street 75, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Gerhard HotzAnthropological Collection, Natural History Museum of Basel, Basel 4051, Switzerland.
Vangelis TourloukisPaleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
Katerina HarvatiPaleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany; DFG Centre of Advanced Studies 'Words, Bones, Genes, Tools', Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, D-72070 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: katerina.harvati@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de.
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment · DENational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRNatural History Museum of Basel · CHUniversity of Stuttgart · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systematic tool production and use is one of humanity's defining characteristics, possibly originating as early as >3 million years ago.

Indexed as

HominidaeThumbAnimalsBiological EvolutionBiomechanical PhenomenaFossilsHumans3D muscle modelingAustralopithecusearly Homoenthesesevolutionary biomechanicsevolution of the handevolution of tool usefunctional morphologyHomo naledimuscle attachments

Identifiers

PMID33513351
PMCPMC7987722
OpenAlexW3125134835

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