ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Evidence for habitual climbing in a Pleistocene hominin in South Africa.
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- Locomotor and taxonomic diversity of Sterkfontein hominins not supported by current trabecular evidence of the femoral head.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Reply to Haeusler et al.: Internal structure of the femur provides robust evidence for locomotor and taxonomic diversity at Sterkfontein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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Abstract
Bipedalism is a defining trait of the hominin lineage, associated with a transition from a more arboreal to a more terrestrial environment. While there is debate about when modern human-like bipedalism first appeared in hominins, all known South African hominins show morphological adaptations to bipedalism, suggesting that this was their predominant mode of locomotion. Here we present evidence that hominins preserved in the Sterkfontein Caves practiced two different locomotor repertoires. The trabecular structure of a proximal femur (StW 522) attributed to
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