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Human, almost human: how many human species are there?
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022 The debate on the question "How many human species are there?" may never be resolved. Leaving aside the theological and political aspects of the question, this paper analyses three dimensions of the problem – metaphysical, biological and technical ...
Thierry Hoquet
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How bipedalism shapes humans' actions with hand tools. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciThe task for an embodied cognitive understanding of humans’ actions with tools is to elucidate how the human body, as a whole, supports the perception of affordances and dexterous action with objects in relation to other objects.
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Safe Carrying of Heavy Infants Together With Hair Properties Explain Human Evolution
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 As a physicist, my scientific career was interrupted by maternity, and afterward retaken, with a parallel independent personal perspective on human evolution. My previous published contributions are reanalyzed as Hypothesis and Theory.
Lia Queiroz do Amaral
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Variability and the form–function framework in evolutionary biomechanics and human locomotion
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 The form–function conceptual framework, which assumes a strong relationship between the structure of a particular trait and its function, has been crucial for understanding morphological variation and locomotion among extant and fossil species across ...
Alison A. Murray
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New fossils of Australopithecus sediba reveal a nearly complete lower back
eLife, 2021 Adaptations of the lower back to bipedalism are frequently discussed but infrequently demonstrated in early fossil hominins. Newly discovered lumbar vertebrae contribute to a near-complete lower back of Malapa Hominin 2 (MH2), offering additional ...
Scott A Williams +16 more
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Laetoli footprints preserve earliest direct evidence of human-like bipedal biomechanics.
PLoS ONE, 2010 BackgroundDebates over the evolution of hominin bipedalism, a defining human characteristic, revolve around whether early bipeds walked more like humans, with energetically efficient extended hind limbs, or more like apes with flexed hind limbs.
David A Raichlen +4 more
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Predicting the metabolic energy costs of bipedalism using evolutionary robotics [PDF]
, 2003 To understand the evolution of bipedalism among the homnoids in an ecological context we need to be able to estimate theenerrgetic cost of locomotion in fossil forms.
Sellers, W. I.; id_orcid +8 more
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Etude de cas : la bipédie des chimpanzés de la communauté de Sebitoli, Ouganda
Revue de Primatologie, 2022 To better understand the selective pressures associated with the emergence of bipedal behaviours in the human lineage, the study of bipedal behaviours and their context in modern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) provides some basis for comparison ...
Lise Pernel +5 more
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Human calcaneal variation relative to subsistence strategy, activity level, and footwear
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Lower limb cortical and trabecular bone varies with human behavior, leading to suggestions that activity level decreases have contributed to a more gracile skeleton.
Christine M. Harper
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Royal Society Open Science, 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.
Oliver E. Demuth +2 more
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