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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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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2021 Objectives Long bone variations during growth are susceptible to the combined action of nutritional, hormonal, and genetic factors that may modulate the mechanical forces acting upon growing individuals as they progressively acquire a mature gait.
Annalisa Pietrobelli +2 more
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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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Bipedalism in Mexican Albian lizard (Squamata) and the locomotion type in other Cretaceous lizards
bioRxiv, 2021 Representative locomotion types in lizards include terrestrial, arboreal, grass swimmer, sand swimmer and bipedal. Few studies explain the locomotion habit of extinct lizards, and even less asses those of bipedal ones.
Damián Villaseñor‐Amador +2 more
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An international research network on bipedalism [PDF]
Among primates, hominins represent the sole clade in which bipedalism is the main positional mode of posture and locomotion. Bipedalism is thus widely recognized as a key trait facilitating their adaptive success.
Duveau, Jérémy +49 more
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Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches [PDF]
, 2007 Human bipedalism is commonly thought to have evolved from a quadrupedal terrestrial precursor, yet some recent paleontological evidence suggests that adaptations for bipedalism arose in an arboreal context.
Holder, Roger +2 more
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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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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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