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Qualls, C., Evans, P., Perciaccante, A., Bianucci, Raffaella and Lippi, D. (2018) The human hand and foot in evolution and art : the effects of wearing footwear. Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics, 9 (2). p. 394. doi:10.4172/2155-6180.1000394 ISSN 2155-6180.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-6180.1000394
Abstract
The structures of the human hands and feet are shaped by evolution and its effects on the brain, skeleton and other structures, and on behavior. We used measurements obtained of hands and feet from living humans in Europe, the Americas (South and North) and Australia and images of hands and feet in cave art, paintings, and photographs obtained from the Web including some from Africa. We used the ratios of the third finger/width of hand and second toe/width of foot. We hypothesized that hand ratios would not have changed over millennia whereas, because of the use of footwear and mechanical locomotion, the ratios obtained from feet could have changed significantly. Here we report that statistical analyses and modeling confirmed our initial hypothesis
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QM Human anatomy | |||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Microbiology & Infection Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Foot -- Evolution, Hand -- Evolution, Toes -- Evolution, Fingers -- Evolution, Footwear, Cave paintings | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics | |||||||||
Publisher: | OMICS International | |||||||||
ISSN: | 2155-6180 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 4 April 2018 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 9 | |||||||||
Number: | 2 | |||||||||
Number of Pages: | 3 | |||||||||
Page Range: | p. 394 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.4172/2155-6180.1000394 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 May 2018 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 May 2018 | |||||||||
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