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Resolving Head Rotation for Human Bipedalism [PDF]

, 2006
SummaryAlignment of the body to the gravitational vertical is considered to be the key to human bipedalism. However, changes to the semicircular canals during human evolution [1–3] suggest that the sense of head rotation that they provide is important ...
Day, Brian L., Fitzpatrick, Richard C. (R17516), Butler, Jane E., Fitzpatrick, Richard C.   +3 more
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La revanche du pied

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Traditionally, feet have had a bad reputation. This is reflected in certain popular expressions, but also in the hierarchy that has been established between the upper parts of the body (brain, mouth and larynx) and the lower part.
Christian Bromberger
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Evolutionary aspects of bipedalism in hominins [PDF]

, 2013
The work deals with the human bipedality, the previous locomotor behavior and possible reasons for its occurrence. For help finding Ardipithecus ramidus, who is dating close to the split of chimpanzees and humans, is studied prebipedal pattern of ...
Pinterová, Nikola
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The Evolution of Bipedalism in Phylogenetic and Environmental Contexts [PDF]

Bipedalism is a key human adaptation, making its evolution a central topic in biological anthropology. To meet the mechanical demands of bipedalism, the human foot evolved significantly.
Sekhavati, Yeganeh
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The influence of bipedalism on the development of humans [PDF]

, 2020
Glavni cilj diplomskega dela je predstaviti, kako je bipedalizem vplival na razvoj človeka. Bipedalizem je način gibanja po zadnjih dveh nogah. Šimpanzi, kot tudi druge opice, ga uporabljajo za določeno opravilo, na primer za nabiranje hrane iz višje ...
Žokalj, Tjaša
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The African ape-like foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications for the origin of bipedalism

eLife, 2019
The ancestral condition from which humans evolved is critical for understanding the adaptive origin of bipedal locomotion. The 4.4 million-year-old hominin partial skeleton attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus preserves a foot that purportedly shares ...
Thomas Cody Prang
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Why do we transition from walking to running? Energy cost and lower leg muscle activity before and after gait transition under body weight support [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Minimization of the energetic cost of transport (CoT) has been suggested for the walk-run transition in human locomotion. More recent literature argues that lower leg muscle activities are the potential triggers of the walk-run transition.
Daijiro Abe, Yoshiyuki Fukuoka, Masahiro Horiuchi   +2 more
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Thermo-imaging bipedalism on the savanna: Chimpanzee locomotion at Fongoli, Senegal and implications for the evolution of hominin bipedalism [PDF]

, 2019
Pressures associated with savanna habitats, such as heat stress, are often cited to explain adaptive traits in hominins, like the evolution of bipedalism.
Wackerly, Nicole
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Human lower limb muscle cross sectional area scales with positive allometry reflecting bipedal evolutionary history

Frontiers in Earth Science
Introduction: Muscle cross-sectional area is an important variable for understanding force generating potential and locomotor adaptation. Geometric scaling predicts area scales proportionally to body mass2/3.
Anna Warrener
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Locomotor decoupling and the origin of hominin bipedalism

, 2006
Theoretical adaptive landscapes and mathematical representations of key constraints of evolutionary and primate biology are used to propose a new hypothesis for the origin of hominin bipedalism.
Sylvester, A.D., Adam D Sylvester
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