A review of trabecular bone functional adaptation: what have we learned from trabecular analyses in extant hominoids and what can we apply to fossils?

TL Kivell - Journal of Anatomy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the unresolved debates in palaeoanthropology regarding evolution of particular
locomotor or manipulative behaviours are founded in differing opinions about the functional …

Rethinking the evolution of the human foot: insights from experimental research

NB Holowka, DE Lieberman - Journal of experimental …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Adaptive explanations for modern human foot anatomy have long fascinated evolutionary
biologists because of the dramatic differences between our feet and those of our closest …

Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

LR Berger, J Hawks, DJ de Ruiter, SE Churchill… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the
Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. This …

A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines

F Détroit, AS Mijares, J Corny, G Daver, C Zanolli… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007 in Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, the
Philippines) and dated to 67 thousand years ago provided the earliest direct evidence of a …

Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism

RC Drummond-Clarke, TL Kivell, L Sarringhaus… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Bipedalism, a defining feature of the human lineage, is thought to have evolved as forests
retreated in the late Miocene-Pliocene. Chimpanzees living in analogous habitats to early …

The fundamental property of human leg during walking: linearity and nonlinearity

K Wang, A Boonpratatong, W Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leg properties have been involved in the broad study of human walking from mechanical
energy to motion prediction of robotics. However, the variable leg elasticities and their …

[HTML][HTML] The foot of Homo naledi

WEH Harcourt-Smith, Z Throckmorton… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Modern humans are characterized by a highly specialized foot that reflects our obligate
bipedalism. Our understanding of hominin foot evolution is, although, hindered by a paucity …

Bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion in chimpanzees

H Pontzer, DA Raichlen, PS Rodman - Journal of human evolution, 2014 - Elsevier
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) habitually walk both bipedally and quadrupedally, and have
been a common point of reference for understanding the evolution of bipedal locomotion in …

One small step: A review of Plio‐Pleistocene hominin foot evolution

J DeSilva, E McNutt, J Benoit… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bipedalism is a hallmark of being human and the human foot is modified to reflect this
unique form of locomotion. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with calling the human foot “a …

[PDF][PDF] Human locomotion and heat loss: an evolutionary perspective

DE Lieberman - Comprehensive Physiology, 2011 - scholar.harvard.edu
Humans are unique in many respects including being furless, striding bipeds that excel at
walking and running long distances in hot conditions. This review summarizes what we do …