In this review, we present on the evolution of the locomotor adaptation of hominins in the
Late Miocene to Late Pliocene, with emphasis on some of the prominent advances and …

Postcranial bones may provide valuable information about fossil taxa relating to their
locomotor habits, manipulative abilities and body sizes. Distinctive features of the …

Although hand grip strength is critical to the daily lives of humans and our arboreal great ape
relatives, the human hand has changed in form and function throughout our evolution due to …

In 1994, Hunt published the 'postural feeding hypothesis'—a seminal paper on the origins of
hominin bipedalism—founded on the detailed study of chimpanzee positional behavior and …

The modern human hand is an intriguing mix of primitive morphology and derived function.
Traditionally, its form and function are explained as a functional “trade‐off” between the …

Since the first discovery of human fossils in the mid‐19th century, two subjects—our
phylogenetic relationship to living and fossil apes and the ancestral locomotor behaviors …

Motion analysis, as applied to evolutionary biomechanics, has experienced its own
evolution over the last 50 years. Here we review how an ever-increasing fossil record …

The earliest South African hominids (humans and their ancestral kin) belong to the genera
Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo, with the oldest being a ca. 3.67 million-year-old …

Objectives This study investigates patterns of bone functional adaptations in extant apes
through comparing hindlimb to forelimb bone rigidity ratios in groups with varying levels of …

In 1938, the first distal femur of a fossil Australopithecus was discovered at Sterkfontein,
South Africa. A decade later, another distal femur was discovered at the same locality. These …