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Humans, geometric similarity and the Froude number: is ‘‘reasonably close’’ really close enough?
Patricia Ann Kramer, Adam D. Sylvester
Biology Open 2013 2: 111-120; doi: 10.1242/bio.20122691
Patricia Ann Kramer
1Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98195-3100, USA
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vol. 2 no. 2, 111-120

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.20122691
PubMed 
23431123

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The Company of Biologists Ltd
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2046-6390
History 
  • Received July 31, 2012
  • Accepted October 23, 2012
  • Published online February 19, 2013.
Posted online 
November 26, 2012
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© 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

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  1. Patricia Ann Kramer1,* and
  2. Adam D. Sylvester2
  1. 1Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98195-3100, USA
  2. 2Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
  1. ↵*Author for correspondence (pakramer{at}u.washington.edu)
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Humans, geometric similarity and the Froude number: is ‘‘reasonably close’’ really close enough?
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