ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Bearded capuchin monkeys use joint synergies to stabilize the hammer trajectory while cracking nuts in bipedal stance.
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- Moving.American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- How bipedalism shapes humans' actions with hand tools.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- One more time about motor (and non-motor) synergies.Experimental brain research · 2021Review
- Revisiting the fourth dimension of tool use: how objects become tools for capuchin monkeys.Evolutionary human sciences · 2021Article
- The Multiple Representations of Complex Digit Movements in Primary Motor Cortex Form the Building Blocks for Complex Grip Types in Capuchin Monkeys.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Search Strategies in the Perceptual-Motor Workspace and the Acquisition of Coordination, Control, and Skill.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The transition from occasional to obligate bipedalism is a milestone in human evolution. However, because the fossil record is fragmentary and reconstructing behaviour from fossils is difficult, changes in the motor control strategies that accompanied this transition remain unknown. Quadrupedal primates that adopt a bipedal stance while using percussive tools provide a unique reference point to clarify one aspect of this transition, which is maintaining bipedal stance while handling massive objects. We found that while cracking nuts using massive stone hammers, wild bearded capuchin monkeys (
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