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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 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.
Michael T Dale
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Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2022 Bipedalism, a defining feature of the human lineage, is thought to have evolved as forests retreated in the late Miocene-Pliocene. Chimpanzees living in analogous habitats to early hominins offer a unique opportunity to investigate the ecological drivers
Drummond-Clarke RC +5 more
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Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad [PDF]
Nature, 2022 Bipedal locomotion is one of the key adaptations that define the hominin clade. Evidence of bipedalism is known from postcranial remains of late Miocene hominins as early as 6 million years ago (Ma) in eastern Africa1–4.
G. Daver +8 more
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First Detailed Anatomical Study of Bonobos Reveals Intra-Specific Variations and Exposes Just-So Stories of Human Evolution, Bipedalism, and Tool Use [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Just-so stories are prominent in human evolution literature because of our tendency to create simple progressionist narratives about our “special” place in nature, despite the fact that these stories are almost exclusively based on hard tissue data.
Rui Diogo
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Simulating the evolution of bipedalism and the absence of static bipedal hexapods
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2021 Abstract In nature, very few animals locomote on two legs. Static bipedalism can be found in four limbed and five limbed animals like dogs, cats, birds, monkeys and kangaroos, but it cannot be seen in hexapods or other multi-limbed animals.
Chunyan Rong +3 more
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Bipedalism or bipedalisms: The os coxae of StW 573
Journal of AnatomyAbstract There has been a long debate about the possibility of multiple contemporaneous species of Australopithecus in both eastern and southern Africa, potentially exhibiting different forms of bipedal locomotion.
Crompton, Robin +15 more
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Models of benthic bipedalism [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2021 Walking is a common bipedal and quadrupedal gait and is often associated with terrestrial and aquatic organisms. Inspired by recent evidence of the neural underpinnings of primitive aquatic walking in the little skateLeucoraja erinacea, we introduce a theoretical model of aquatic walking that reveals robust and efficient gaits with modest requirements ...
F. Giardina, L. Mahadevan
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Earliest evidence of hominin bipedalism in <i>Sahelanthropus tchadensis</i>. [PDF]
Sci AdvBipedalism is a key adaptation that differentiates hominins (humans and our extinct relatives) from living and fossil apes. The earliest putative hominin, Sahelanthropus tchadensis (~7 million years old), was originally represented by a cranium, the ...
Williams SA +5 more
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Spondylolysis and spinal adaptations for bipedalism [PDF]
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 2020 Background and objectives The study reported here focused on the aetiology of spondylolysis, a vertebral pathology usually caused by a fatigue fracture.
Kimberly A. Plomp, K. Dobney, M. Collard
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