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title = "The Thoracic Cage of KSD-VP-1/1",
abstract = "Ribs are naturally fragile and, as a consequence, are rarely preserved in the fossil record. The costal elements recovered from the KSD-VP-1/1 partial skeleton are important evidence allowing reconstruction of the hominin thoracic cage. The ribs of KSD-VP-1/1 are examined with respect to their implications for the evolution of Australopithecus afarensis thoracic morphology. Angulation and torsion along the rib corpus and rib declination indicate a broad upper thorax and a deeply invaginated thoracic vertebral column. Implications for the early hominin thoracic bauplan are discussed.",
keywords = "Australopithecus, Ribs, Thorax",
author = "Latimer, {Bruce M.} and Lovejoy, {C. Owen} and Linda Spurlock and Yohannes Haile-Selassie",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We thank the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ethiopia and administrative offices of the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia for field and laboratory research permits. We thank M. Decker, S. Simpson, and two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. We also thank D. Su for help with figures. The Woranso-Mille project was financially supported by grants from The Leakey Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, The National Geographic Society, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and The National Science Foundation (BCS-0234320, BCS-0321893, BCS-0542037, BCS-1124705, BCS-1124713, BCS-1124716, BCS-1125157, and BCS-1125345). Funding Information: We thank the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ethiopia and administrative offices of the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia for field and laboratory research permits. We thank M. Decker, S. Simpson, and two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. We also thank D. Su for help with figures. The Woranso-Mille project was financially supported by grants from The Leakey Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, The National Geographic Society, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and The National Science Foundation (BCS-0234320, BCS-0321893, BCS-0542037, BCS-1124705, BCS-1124713, BCS-1124716, BCS-1125157, and BCS-1125345). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-017-7429-1_7",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "9789401774277",
pages = "143--153",
booktitle = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
edition = "9789401774277",
}