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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis (ODH) proposes an evolutionary trade‐off between obstetric requirements and locomotor performance. However, whether external pelvic breadth measures influence walking energetics during human growth remains poorly understood.
Guillermo Zorrilla‐Revilla +4 more
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Early Hominin Movement Patterns at Laetoli, Northern Tanzania
PaleoAnthropologyThe site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania is famous for its preservation of 3.66-million-year-old footprint trails, among which are several belonging to an upright walking hominin (Day and Wickens, 1980; Leakey and Hay, 1979; Masao et al., 2016; McNutt et
Catherine K. Miller +4 more
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The “costly son” hypothesis: Sons exacerbate obstetrical dilemmas in humans and other mammals
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Human childbirth has often been considered uniquely difficult among mammals, yet recent evidence suggests that obstructed labor and fetopelvic disproportion are widespread across placental mammals. Here, we propose the “costly son” hypothesis: because male offspring are typically larger at birth, they impose greater obstetric risk on mothers ...
Nicole D. S. Grunstra +1 more
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Spondylolysis and spinal adaptations for bipedalism [PDF]
, 2020 Background and objectives The study reported here focused on the aetiology of spondylolysis, a vertebral pathology usually caused by a fatigue fracture.
Collard, Mark +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionA defining feature of the hominin clade is bipedality, often parcelled together with terrestriality. However, there is increasing evidence of locomotor diversity, both within the hominin clade and amongst the Miocene apes that came before them.
Philippa Hammond +6 more
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Delegation to automaticity: the driving force for cognitive evolution?
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 The ability to delegate control over repetitive tasks from higher to lower neural centres may be a fundamental innovation in human cognition. Plausibly, the massive neurocomputational challenges associated with the mastery of balance during the evolution
James eShine, Richard eShine
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.This study proposes an automated method to infer brown bear hair snare interactions by detecting bipedal behavior in camera‐trap images using a pose estimation model and a multilayer perceptron (MLP). A YOLO‐based model, fine‐tuned from humans and dogs to a custom dataset, achieved high performance (≈93% keypoint precision and ≈96% classification ...
Arnau Campanera‐Moliné +8 more
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Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches
, 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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Communications Biology, 2023 The evolution of the medial longitudinal arch (MLA) is one of the most impactful adaptations in the hominin foot that emerged with bipedalism. When and how it evolved in the human lineage is still unresolved.
Rita Sorrentino +25 more
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The evolution of bipedalism in australopithecines [PDF]
, 2012 U ovome seminaru bavim se evolucijom bipedalnog hoda, anatomskim promjenama koje su prethodile njegovom razvoju kao i fosilnim dokazima koji potvrđuju bipedalizam kod australopitecina.
Čolić, Ivan
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