Bringing trees back into the human evolutionary story: recent evidence from extant great apes. [PDF]
Commun Integr Biol, 2023 Hypotheses have historically linked the emergence and evolution of defining human characteristics such as bipedal walking to ground-dwelling, envisioning our earliest ancestors as living in treeless savannahs (i.e.
Drummond-Clarke RC.
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The sexual selection of hominin bipedalism [PDF]
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 In this article, I advance a novel hypothesis on the evolution of hominin bipedalism. I begin by arguing extensively for how the transition to bipedalism must have been problematic for hominins during the Neogene.
Dale, Michael
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Quantitative biomechanical assessment of locomotor capabilities of the stem archosaur Euparkeria capensis. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2023 Birds and crocodylians are the only remaining members of Archosauria (ruling reptiles) and they exhibit major differences in posture and gait, which are polar opposites in terms of locomotor strategies.
Demuth OE, Wiseman ALA, Hutchinson JR.
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Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2015 This article aimed to review various theories of bipedalism and provide a holistic answer to human evolution. There have been two questions regarding bipedalism: i) why were the earliest hominins partially bipedal?, and ii) why did hominins become ...
Kwang Hyun Ko
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The past, present and future of uterine fibroids. [PDF]
Facts Views Vis ObgynHuman evolution –specifically the development of bipedalism– altered the shape of the pelvis so that legs alone provided locomotion across the ground. As a result, the forelimbs were freed from locomotion.
Burbank F, Vilos GA, Vilos AG.
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Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins. [PDF]
Commun BiolThe origin of the human lineage was catalyzed by bipedalism, but how this locomotor mode evolved is debated. We investigated the evolutionary context of human bipedalism by analyzing the morphology of the 4.4 million-year-old hominin talus attributed to ...
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Muscle synergy in several locomotor modes in chimpanzees and Japanese macaques, and its implications for the evolutionary origin of bipedalism through shared muscle synergies. [PDF]
Sci RepRecent evidence indicates that human ancestors utilized a combination of quadrupedal walking, climbing, and bipedal walking. Therefore, the origin of bipedalism may be linked to underlying mechanisms supporting diverse locomotor modes.
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Editorial: The human foot: function in progress. [PDF]
Front Bioeng Biotechnol, 2023 Bates KT +4 more
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Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism [PDF]
Science Advances, 2022 Rhianna Drummond-Clarke +2 more
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Revue de Primatologie, 2022 In recent decades, the way paleoanthropologists conceive of bipedalism has changed considerably. If bipedalism was once thought to be a unique characteristic, specific to the hominin lineage and marking its origin, the hypothesis of its anatomical and ...
Mathilde Lequin, François Marchal
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