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Tectonics, volcanism, landscape structure and human evolution in the African Rift [PDF]
, 2000 Tectonic movements and volcanism in the African Rift have usually been considered of relevance to human evolution only at very large geographical and chronological scales, principally in relation to longterm topographic and climatic variation at the ...
Bailey, G., King, G., Manighetti, I.
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The multi-functional foot in athletic movement: Extraordinary feats by our extraordinary feet [PDF]
, 2016 The unique architecture of the foot system provides a sensitive, multi-tensional method of communicating with the surrounding environment. Within the premise of the paper, we discuss three themes: complexity, degeneracy and bio-tensegrity.
Kiely, J, Wilson, J
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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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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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Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 911-925, April 2026.ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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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 +2 more
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Remain thou as thou art: The bargain of vegetabling
Crop Science, Volume 66, Issue 2, March/April 2026.Abstract Vegetabling resulted in the development of a unique food source comprised of highly immature plant organs that delivers desirable textures, flavors, and nutritional diversity to human diets. In contrast to some dry‐seeded crops, perishable vegetables require enormous inputs of energy and technology during the postharvest period to preserve ...
Irwin L. Goldman
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“Devolution” of bipedality [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 Ozcelik et al. (1) report mutations in very-low-density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) that are associated with quadrupedal gait. They propose a pivotal role for VLDLR in the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion in man. VLDLR is a key regulator of cerebellar development in vertebrates (2).
Joachim Herz +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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