arm length

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In article <40l0nr$7tg@news.cc.ucf.edu> Thomas Clarke,
clarke@acme.ucf.edu writes:

>>And very unlike that of hominids. Where are the shorter limbs one
>>would expect in an aquatic animal?
>
>Homo sapiens has shorter arms than any other ape.

Not so. Homo sapiens has arms of the expected length for an ape our
size. In fact, Homo, Australopithecus & Pan all have arms that are the
same length relative to body mass.

Alex Duncan
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1086
512-471-4206
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu

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