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 …

Bioarchaeological (the study of archeological human remains together with contextual and
documentary evidence) offers a unique vantage point to examine variation in skeletal …

Biomechanics theory provides new ways to reconstruct behavior in past populations.
Application of biomechanical beam models to long bone diaphyses has proven to be a …

Objectives Research on a limited number of samples suggests that trabecular bone density
(ie, bone volume fraction, BVF) within specific articulations is lower among more sedentary …

Primate fingers are typically in direct contact with the environment during both locomotion
and manipulation, and aspects of external phalangeal morphology are known to reflect …

Aspects of trabecular bone architecture are thought to reflect regional loading of the
skeleton, and thus differ between primate taxa with different locomotor and postural modes …

Trabecular bone—the spongy bone inside marrow cavities—adapts to its mechanical
environment during growth and development. Trabecular structure can therefore be …

Background Sciuromorpha (squirrels and close relatives) are diverse in terms of body size
and locomotor behavior. Individual species are specialized to perform climbing, gliding or …

Bipedalism is a defining trait of the hominin lineage, associated with a transition from a more
arboreal to a more terrestrial environment. While there is debate about when modern human …

Objectives The primate talus is known to have a shape that varies according to differences in
locomotion and substrate use. While the modern human talus is morphologically specialized …