Styloid Process (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Styloid Process

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The styloid process is a projection of bone. Ward and her team found a styloid process at the end of a wrist bone more than 1.42 million years old, indicating this anatomical feature existed more than half a million years earlier than previously known.

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