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A CONTRIBUTION to this journal1 is among several that have attracted criticism from Oxnard2. This communication has two objects; first, to reply to comments by Oxnard which relate to a possible ambiguity in the earlier communication; second, to present the results of a new analysis which provide additional evidence for the interpretation of the mode of locomotion of East African dryopithecines.
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WOOD, B. Locomotor Affinities of Hominoid Tali from Kenya. Nature 246, 45–46 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246045a0
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