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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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Evidence to Suggest that Women’s Sexual Behavior is Influenced by Hip Width Rather than Waist-to-Hip Ratio [PDF]
, 2014 Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is an important ornament display that signals women’s health and fertility. Its significance derives from human development as a bipedal species.
Brewer, Gayle +2 more
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Effects of cervical muscle fatigue on the perception of the subjective vertical and horizontal [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction: Cervical functional capacity outcome measures that are simple and reliable are urgently needed in order permit accurate assessment/reassessment during treatments and rehabilitation.
Fagan, Michael J +2 more
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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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Humans, geometric similarity and the Froude number: is ''reasonably close'' really close enough? [PDF]
, 2012 Summary Understanding locomotor energetics is imperative, because energy expended during locomotion, a requisite feature of primate subsistence, is lost to reproduction.
Kramer, P.A., Sylvester, A.D.
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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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First anatomical network analysis of fore- and hindlimb musculoskeletal modularity in bonobos, common chimpanzees, and humans [PDF]
, 2018 Studies of morphological integration and modularity, and of anatomical complexity in human evolution typically focus on skeletal tissues. Here we provide the first network analysis of the musculoskeletal anatomy of both the fore- and hindlimbs of the two
B Esteve-Altava +25 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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Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan [PDF]
, 2016 The colossal size and body plan of sauropod dinosaurs are unparalleled in terrestrial vertebrates. However, to date, there have been only limited attempts to examine temporal and phylogenetic patterns in the sauropod bauplan.
Allen, V +9 more
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