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From Biped to Strider

The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport

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Paperback, 213 blz. | Engels
Springer US | 0e druk, 2004
ISBN13: 9780306480003
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The inspiration for this volume of contributed papers stemmed from conversations between the editors in front of Chuck Hilton's poster on the determinants of hominid walking speed, presented at thel998 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). Earlier at those meetings, Jeff Meldrum (with Roshna Wunderlich) had presented an alternate interpretation of the Laetoli footprints based on evidence of midfoot flexibility. As the discussion ensued we found convergence on a number of ideas about the nature of the evolution of modem human walking. From the continuation of that dialogue grew the proposal for a symposium which we called From Biped to Strider: the Emergence of Modem Human Walking. The symposium was held as a session of the 69th annual meeting of the AAPA, held in San Antonio, Texas in 2000. It seemed to us that the study of human bipedalism had become overshadowed by theoften polarized debates over whether australo­ pithecines were wholly terrestrial in habit, or retained a significant degree of arboreality.

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ISBN13:9780306480003
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:213
Uitgever:Springer US
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1. Striders, Runners, Transporters; C.E. Hilton, D.J. Meldrum. 2. Knuckle-walking and the Origin of Bipedalism; D.R. Begun. 3. A New Hypothesis on the Origin of Hominoid Locomotion; Y. Deloison. 4. Functional Interpretation of the Laetoli Footprints; P. Schmid. 5. Fossilized Hawaiian Footprints Compared with Laetoli Hominid Footprints; D.J. Meldrum. 6. In What Manner Did They Walk on Two Legs? An Architectural Perspective For the Functional Diagnostics of the Early Hominid Foot; G. Berillon. 7. Bipedalism in Homo ergaster: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Tibial Torsion on Locomotor Biomechanics; L. Tobias Gruss, D. Schmitt. 8. The Running Fighting Dichotomy and Hominid Evolution; D.R. Carrier. 9. Exploring the Locomotor System of a Biped through a Behavioral Ecology and Life History Perspective; P.A. Kramer. 10. Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers; C.E. Hilton, R.D. Greaves. 11. Mobility and the locomotor skeleton at the foraging to farming transition; M.D. Ogilvie. 12. Uplifted Head, Free Hands, and the Evolution of Human Walking; H.M. McHenry.

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