ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2010
Arboreality, terrestriality and bipedalism.
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- Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness.PLoS biology · 2026Pooled it
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- Quantitative Study of Elbow Ligaments in Modern Humans (Homo sapiens) and Common Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
- Terrestrial Positional Behavior of Wild Pongo pygmaeus.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
- The locomotor ecology of wild western lowland gorillas: How does the largest ape exploit complex arboreal environments?Journal of anatomy · 2026Article
- Gorilla knuckle-walking mechanics suggest independent evolution in African great apes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Trabecular Architecture of the Proximal Tibia in Extant Hominids.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Bringing trees back into the human evolutionary story: recent evidence from extant great apes.Communicative & integrative biology · 2023Review
- Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism.Science advances · 2022Article
- Ape femoral-humeral rigidities and arboreal locomotion.American journal of biological anthropology · 2022Article
- Baboon perspectives on the ecology and behavior of early human ancestors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Layered habitats: An evolutionary model for present-day recreational needs.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Variation, mosaicism and degeneracy in the hominin foot.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
- Daily activity in minimal footwear increases foot strength.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Exploring the functional morphology of the Gorilla shoulder through musculoskeletal modelling.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- Ticks, Hair Loss, and Non-Clinging Babies: A Novel Tick-Based Hypothesis for the Evolutionary Divergence of Humans and Chimpanzees.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The full publication of Ardipithecus ramidus has particular importance for the origins of hominin bipedality, and strengthens the growing case for an arboreal origin. Palaeontological techniques however inevitably concentrate on details of fragmentary postcranial bones and can benefit from a whole-animal perspective. This can be provided by field studies of locomotor behaviour, which provide a real-world perspective of adaptive context, against which conclusions drawn from palaeontology and comparative osteology may be assessed and honed. Increasingly sophisticated dynamic modelling techniques, validated against experimental data for living animals, offer a different perspective where evolutionary and virtual ablation experiments, impossible for living mammals, may be run in silico, and these can analyse not only the interactions and behaviour of rigid segments but increasingly the effects of compliance, which are of crucial importance in guiding the evolution of an arboreally derived lineage.
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