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Supra-sternal Ossicles in Primates other than Man: some Isolated Cases in Gorilla and Chimpanzee

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SCHULTZ1 examined nearly three hundred gibbon skeletons and his report contains the following interesting observation: “Separate suprasternal ossicles occur in two of the gibbons examined (= 0.07%)…. These ossicles are quite common in Man.… Never before have they been observed in primates other than man”. Cobb2 found no evidence of suprasternal ossicles in the skeletons of sixty-one gorillas, thirty-eight chimpanzees and eight orangs. Schultz has not seen this primitive condition “among many hundreds of monkey and ape skeletons examined, except in the two gibbons mentioned”.

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ASHLEY, G. Supra-sternal Ossicles in Primates other than Man: some Isolated Cases in Gorilla and Chimpanzee. Nature 176, 608–609 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176608b0

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