Because the ulna supports and transmits forces during movement, its morphology can signal
aspects of functional adaptation. To test whether, like extant apes, some hominins habitually …

Despite decades of debate, it remains unclear whether human bipedalism evolved from a
terrestrial knuckle-walking ancestor or from a more generalized, arboreal ape ancestor …

Among living mammals, only the African apes and some anteaters adopt knuckle‐walking
as their primary locomotor behavior. That Pan and Gorilla both knuckle‐walk has been cited …

Richmond & Strait (2000) have attracted much attention with a recent morphometric analysis
of distal radii of anthropoids and hominid fossils, suggesting some of the latter share knuckle …

African apes engage in a distinct form of locomotion called knuckle-walking, but there is
much ambiguity as to when and how this locomotor behavior evolved. This study aims to …

We are pleased that Corruccini & McHenry (2001), using their own dataset, independently
arrive at the conclusion recently reached by us (Richmond & Strait, 2000), and long …

Abstract The African apes (Pan and Gorilla) purportedly exhibit an adaptive complex of the
wrist that results in a rigid distal forelimb to facilitate knuckle-walking. Documentation of traits …

Abstract Modern African apes,'Pan'and'Gorilla', engage in a unique form of terresrial
quadrupedalism called knuckle-walking. They also share with humans a recent evolutionary …

Appeals to synapomorphic features of the wrist and hand in African apes, early hominins,
and modern humans as evidence of knuckle‐walking ancestry for the hominin lineage rely …

The third metacarpal has been a focus of study when examining questions surrounding
early hominin locomotion since this bone is adapted to the diverse range of positional …