BACKGROUND Ever since the writings of Darwin and Huxley, humans' place in nature
relative to apes (nonhuman hominoids) and the geographic origins of the human lineage …

Striding bipedalism is a key derived behaviour of hominids that possibly originated soon
after the divergence of the chimpanzee and human lineages. Although bipedal gaits include …

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Human dance was investigated with positron emission tomography to identify its systems-
level organization. Three core aspects of dance were examined: entrainment, meter and …

The shift to habitual bipedalism 4–6 million years ago in the hominin lineage created a
morphologically and functionally different human pelvis compared to our closest living …

Many of the unresolved debates in palaeoanthropology regarding evolution of particular
locomotor or manipulative behaviours are founded in differing opinions about the functional …

The fossil record of the human pelvis reveals the selective priorities acting on hominin
anatomy at different points in our evolutionary history, during which mechanical …

We review the evolution of human bipedal locomotion with a particular emphasis on the
evolution of the foot. We begin in the early twentieth century and focus particularly on …

Bipedal walking is evident in the earliest hominins [Zollikofer CPE, Ponce de Leon MS,
Lieberman DE, Guy F, Pilbeam D, et al.(2005) Nature 434: 755–759], but why our unique …

The substantial fossil record for Australopithecus afarensis includes both an adult partial
skeleton [Afar Locality (AL) 288-1,“Lucy”] and a large simultaneous death assemblage (AL …