Evolution of Human Cervical (Neck) Vertebrae

[Oxytropidoceras]

3.3 Million-Year-Old Fossil Sheds Light On How The

Spine Evolved, The Two-way, NPR, May 23, 2017

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/23/529693497/3-3-million-year-old-fossil-sheds-light-on-how-the-spine-evolved

 

The paper is:

 

Ward, C. V., T. K. Nalley, F. Spoor, P. Tafforeaue, and

Z. Alemsegedf, 2017, Thoracic vertebral count and

thoracolumbar transition in Australopithecus afarensis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1702229114.abstract

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1702229114.full.pdf

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.