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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Human evolution unfolded through a rather distinctive, dynamically constructed ecological niche. The human niche is not only generally terrestrial in habitat, while being flexibly and extensively heterotrophic in food-web connections.
Aaron Jonas Stutz, Aaron Jonas Stutz
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Life, 2021 Human straight-legged bipedalism represents one of the earliest events in the evolutionary split between humans (Homo spp.) and chimpanzees (Pan spp.), although its selective basis is a mystery. A carrying-related hypothesis has recently been proposed in
Jeffrey G. Brown
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Muscle endurance: Is bipedalism the cause?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 One may ask if the transition to bipedalism from the condition of quadrupedalism, which occurred about 7 million years ago, has been the cause or consequence of a series of fundamental physiological muscular aspects including the cost of locomotion, a ...
Giuseppe D’Antona +2 more
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Bipedal locomotion in zoo apes: Revisiting the hylobatian model for bipedal origins
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Bipedal locomotion is a hallmark of being human. Yet the body form from which bipedalism evolved remains unclear. Specifically, the positional behaviour (i.e. orthograde vs. pronograde) and the length of the lumbar spine (i.e. long and mobile vs.
Kyle H. Rosen +2 more
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Revue de Primatologie, 2022 In the literature, reference has often been made to the environments in which our ancestors lived, emphasizing dietary requirements and/or the importance of behaviours in these more or less wooded environments.
Brigitte Senut
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Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionInvestigations into the role of selection in the origin of human bipedalism using ape models have relied heavily on behavioral frequency data. However, analysis of video of wild apes has the advantage of capturing the details of the entirety of each rare,
Lauren Sarringhaus +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]
, 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
Kivell, Tracy L +5 more
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Speed modulation in hylobatid bipedalism: a kinematic analysis [PDF]
, 2006 Gibbons are highly arboreal apes, and it is expected that their bipedal locomotion will show some particularities related to the arboreal environment. Previous research has shown that, during hylobatid bipedalism, unsupported phases are rare and stride ...
D'Aout, Kristiaan +3 more
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The petrotympanic canal (Huguier canal): Evolutionary, anatomical, and medical perspectives
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The petrotympanic canal, traditionally referred to as Civinini's or Huguier's canal, represents an anatomical passage connecting the middle ear and temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Despite its early description, its structural complexity and functional significance have often been underestimated. In this study, we combined historical, anatomical,
Andrea Papini +8 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Primates show a high degree of locomotor diversity that engenders similar variance in limb bone cross‐sectional geometry and bending strength: leaping primates have stronger hindlimb bones whereas suspensory species have stronger forelimb bones.
Angela M. Mossor +7 more
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