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XXI.—The External Anatomy of Allenopithecus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

W. C. Osman Hill
Affiliation:
Yerkes Regional Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Synopsis

The previous history of Allenopithecus is summarized and a new description provided based on freshly dead cadavers of an adult male and female and of a male stillborn infant. Analysis of details of body proportions and external anatomy confirm the apartness of Allenopithecus from Cercopithecus and indicate a transitional status towards the macaques. Striking departures from cercopithecine features occur in the face, ear, extremities, in the presence, in the female, of a catamenial swelling and in the approximation or confluence, in the male, of the ischial callosities.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1964

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