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Anatomy and Physiology

Auditory System (Ear)

• External ear  (Buffalo Museum of Science)

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Connective and Adipose Tissue

• Histologie Animale et Veterinaire  (from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
• Histology for Medicine and Dentistry  (by P. Gopalakrishnakone)

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Dental and Oral Structures

• Teeth and Jaws  (of gorilla, Australopithecus and man)

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Dermatoglyphics

• Do other primates, such as apes, chimps, and monkeys, also have fingerprints?  (USA Today Wonderquest)

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Digestive System

• Quantitative Analysis of Gut Morphology in Primates and Humans  

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Integument

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Musculoskeletal System

• Bone Clones  
• Chimpanzee Skull  
• Crania  (Illustrating gorilla, Australopithecus, and man)
• DigiMorph: Primates  (Skulls)
• DK Clip Art: Chimpanzee Skull  
• French Casting  (Includes Primate Cranial Series and Primate Postcranial Models)
• Gibbon Typical Characteristics  (Gibbon Research Lab)
• Gorilla and chimpanzee skeletons  (Oklahoma City Community College)
• Gorilla and chimpanzee skulls  (Oklahoma City Community College)
• Gorilla Skull  
• Mammalia Crania Picture Archive: Primates  
• Our Primate Origins: Anatomy of the Skull  (Smithsonian Institution)
• Premier Products: Rhesus Monkey Skeleton  
• Primate Anatomy  (by Claud A. Bramblett)
• Primate Skull Casts  
• Primate skulls and skeletons  (Valley Anatomical Preparations)
• Skull gallery  (Glendale Community College, Anthropology Dept.)
• Skulls Unlimited: Primate Skulls  
• The eSkeletons Project  (Includes baboon and gorilla skeleton)
• What is Bipedalism?  (from PBS Secrets of the Dead)

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Nervous System

• Brain Atlas Database of Japanese Monkey for WWW  
• Brain Facts and Figures  
• Brain Meta.com: Human and Primate Brain Atlases  
• Caltech Mouse Lemur Brain Atlas  
• Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections  
• Denny-Brown Research Collection  
• Monkey Atlas  (Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA)
• Primate Brain Bank  
• Primate Brain Scans  
• Stereotaxic MRI Brain Atlas of Japanese Monkey  
• Surface-Based Atlas of Cerebral Cortex  (Macaque)
• Template Atlas of the Primate Brain  (University of Washington)

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Reproductive System

• Comparative Placentation  
• Primate Menstrual Cycle  

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Visual System (Eye)

• Lance Hahn's Retina Reference  

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Weights and Measures

• Birthweights of Macaca nemestrina  

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