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 …

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 evolution of the human upper limb involved a change in function from its use for both
locomotion and prehension (as in apes) to a predominantly prehensile and manipulative …

While there is broad agreement that early hominins practiced some form of terrestrial
bipedality, there is also evidence that arboreal behavior remained a part of the locomotor …

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with'nature'and'wilderness';
battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the …

Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of
how we understand the evolution of life--but scientific advances of recent decades have …

From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a
lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use …

The evolutionary transition from an ape-like to human-like upper extremity occurred in the
context of a behavioral shift from an upper limb predominantly involved in locomotion to one …

Reconstructing the behavioral shifts that drove hominin evolution requires knowledge of the
timing, magnitude, and direction of anatomical changes over the past∼ 6–7 million years …