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The great apes and humans were characterized by mediolaterally expanded capitate facets compared to highly quadrupedal cercopithecines and platyrrhines. In addition, the lateral aspect of the palmar border of the capitate facet extended farther in the palmar direction compared to the medial aspect in great apes and humans. The medial and lateral aspects of the palmar border extended equally in the palmar direction in quadrupedal monkeys. The two brachiating taxa, gibbons and spider monkeys, clustered along the second principal component based on a shared medial constriction of the lateral border of the capitate facet not observed to the same extent in any other taxon. We next examined Procrustes distances between mean taxon shape configurations in order to quantify the overall similarities and differences between taxa (Table 4). We will only discuss results for the extant taxa in this section. In most cases, http://www.selleckchem.com/products/DMXAA(ASA404).html the lowest Procrustes distances were found between two taxa that were closely related. This is the case for each of the hominoids. Pan and Gorilla were most similar to one another. Homo was most similar to Pan. Also, Cercopithecus and Macaca were most similar to other Old World monkeys. Furthermore, Ateles was most similar to the closely related Cebus, even though Ateles performs a much higher proportion of brachiation http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Temsirolimus.html during locomotion. However, Cebus was most similar to distantly related Papio and Cercopithecus in capitate facet shape among extant taxa, and all three of these species have been observed to be highly quadrupedal. We next used multivariate regression to further examine the degree to which function and phylogeny influence Mc3 capitate facet shape. Results of the regression of Procrustes coordinates against each independent variable (each of the five locomotor variables, phylogenetic group, and log centroid size) are listed in Table 5. Each of the independent variables had a significant correspondence with overall capitate facet shape. The proportion of quadrupedal locomotion explained the most variation (20%), followed by log centroid size and substrate usage. As shown in Table 6, there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%CE%BAB%CE%B1 were significant correlations between knuckle-walking, amount of terrestrial substrate usage, and size. This is expected given that gorillas and chimpanzees are two of the largest taxa in the study and spend most of their time knuckle-walking on the ground. Furthermore, large-bodied humans are terrestrial. Additionally, vertical climbing and brachiation were significantly correlated. Finally, quadrupedalism and phylogeny were found to be relatively independent of one another (compared with the vectors described above) based on the significant angle between their vectors (P