The African ape-like foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications for the origin of bipedalism
eLife, 2019 The ancestral condition from which humans evolved is critical for understanding the adaptive origin of bipedal locomotion. The 4.4 million-year-old hominin partial skeleton attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus preserves a foot that purportedly shares ...
Thomas Cody Prang
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Bipedalism and pelvic floor disorders, an evolutionary medical approach
Continence ReportsEvolutionary medicine can help to better understand the basis of pelvic floor disorders. Some evidences of the anthropological literature are reviewed, with emphasis on the paleontological clues and phylogenetic comparison of cephalo-pelvic relations in ...
Marcos García-Diez +2 more
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Tail autotomy affects bipedalism but not sprint performance in a cursorial Mediterranean lizard [PDF]
SCIENCE NATURE, 2016 Running is essential in all terrestrial animals mainly for finding food and mates and escaping from predators. Lizards employ running in all their everyday functions, among which defense stands out.
P. Savvides +3 more
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A New Experimental Protocol for Assessing Hominoid Assisted Arboreal Bipedalism. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolInternational audienceArboreal bipedalism is suggested as a precursor and adaptive locomotor mode for the immediate ancestor of hominin terrestrial bipedalism, yet detailed investigation of its locomotor biomechanics is hindered by its low frequency and ...
Lockwood VA +4 more
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Human bipedalism and body-mass index
Scientific Reports, 2017 Body-mass index, abbreviated as BMI and given by M/H 2 with the mass M and the height H, has been widely used as a useful proxy to measure a general health status of a human individual.
Su Do Yi +5 more
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Lufengpithecus inner ear provides evidence of a common locomotor repertoire ancestral to human bipedalism. [PDF]
Innovation (Camb)Various lines of evidence have been used to infer the origin of human bipedalism, but the paucity of hominoid postcranial fossils and the diversity of inferred locomotor modes have tended to confound the reconstruction of ancestral morphotypes ...
Zhang Y +7 more
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Becoming adults: exploring the late ontogeny of the human talus
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionThe talus plays an important role in receiving and dissipating the forces and linking the leg and the foot. As such, it is of paramount importance to analyze how its morphology, internal and external, changes during late ontogeny and through ...
Carla Figus +18 more
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Decoupling body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaurian ancestors
Nature Communications, 2023 It is accepted that non-avian theropod dinosaurs, with their long muscular tails and small forelimbs, had a centre-of-mass close to the hip, while extant birds, with their reduced tails and enlarged wings have their mass centred more cranially ...
Sophie Macaulay +7 more
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The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps. [PDF]
NatureBipedalism is a human-defining trait1, 2–3. It is made possible by the familiar, bowl-shaped pelvis, whose short, wide iliac blades curve along the sides of the body to stabilize walking and support internal organs and a large-brained, broad-shouldered ...
Senevirathne G +18 more
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Forest terrains influence walking kinematics among indigenous Tsimane of the Bolivian Amazon
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Laboratory-based studies indicate that a major evolutionary advantage of bipedalism is enabling humans to walk with relatively low energy expenditure.
Nicholas B. Holowka +4 more
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