Manual prehension, involved in food acquisition and locomotion, is common to all primates. However, the mechanisms of its emergence and evolution still remain to be elucidated. This prompts questions such as 1) what are the ecological factors (food and substrate properties) leading to an increase of the use of the hand in early primates, and 2) what functional factors (body posture, kinematics of the forelimb) are involved in the evolution of prehension in primates?The thesis project aims to determine the behavioural and kinematic strategies of unconstrained prehension in representative species of the major lineages of primates (the mouse lemur, lemur catta, capuchin, gorilla, chimpanzee, human).The behavioural strategies of the mouse lemur...
Manual grasping is widespread among tetrapods but is more prominent and dexterous in primates. Wheth...
For a long time, humans (genus Homo) were thought to be the only mammalian species capable of dextr...
The most popular model to explain how prehensile movements are organized assumes that they comprise ...
La préhension manuelle, impliquée dans l’acquisition de nourriture et la locomotion, est commune à t...
Primates are known for their use of the hand in many activities including food grasping. Yet, most s...
La préhension manuelle, impliquée dans l acquisition de nourriture et la locomotion, est commune à t...
Primate origins are subject to important controversies. The initial radiation of first Primates and ...
Apes share a distinct set of morphological and anatomical characteristics that allow us to use our a...
The prehensile hand is one of the major traits distinguishing primates from other mammal species. Al...
Humans are considered to have unique manual abilities in the animal kingdom. However, we still do no...
Although there is a wealth of behavioral data regarding grasping movements in non-human primates, ho...
The bases for understanding the neuronal mechanisms that underlie the control of reach-to-grasp move...
The most popular model to explain how prehensile movements are organized assumes that they comprise ...
<p>Primates and many other animals that move in an arboreal environment often cling, sometimes for l...
<p>For primates, and other arboreal mammals, adopting suspensory locomotion represents one of the st...
Manual grasping is widespread among tetrapods but is more prominent and dexterous in primates. Wheth...
For a long time, humans (genus Homo) were thought to be the only mammalian species capable of dextr...
The most popular model to explain how prehensile movements are organized assumes that they comprise ...
La préhension manuelle, impliquée dans l’acquisition de nourriture et la locomotion, est commune à t...
Primates are known for their use of the hand in many activities including food grasping. Yet, most s...
La préhension manuelle, impliquée dans l acquisition de nourriture et la locomotion, est commune à t...
Primate origins are subject to important controversies. The initial radiation of first Primates and ...
Apes share a distinct set of morphological and anatomical characteristics that allow us to use our a...
The prehensile hand is one of the major traits distinguishing primates from other mammal species. Al...
Humans are considered to have unique manual abilities in the animal kingdom. However, we still do no...
Although there is a wealth of behavioral data regarding grasping movements in non-human primates, ho...
The bases for understanding the neuronal mechanisms that underlie the control of reach-to-grasp move...
The most popular model to explain how prehensile movements are organized assumes that they comprise ...
<p>Primates and many other animals that move in an arboreal environment often cling, sometimes for l...
<p>For primates, and other arboreal mammals, adopting suspensory locomotion represents one of the st...
Manual grasping is widespread among tetrapods but is more prominent and dexterous in primates. Wheth...
For a long time, humans (genus Homo) were thought to be the only mammalian species capable of dextr...
The most popular model to explain how prehensile movements are organized assumes that they comprise ...