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ArticleNature2021

Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania.

Ellison J McNutt, Kevin G Hatala, Catherine Miller, James Adams, Jesse Casana, Andrew S Deane, Nathaniel J Dominy, Kallisti Fabian, Luke D Fannin, Stephen Gaughan and 20 more

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Ellison J McNuttDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University Heritage College of Medicine, Athens, OH, USA. ejmcnutt@ohio.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7723-9103
Kevin G HatalaDepartment of Biology, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9131-5304
Catherine MillerEcology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
James AdamsDartmouth Library, Dartmout College, Hanover, NH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0008-7877
Jesse CasanaEcology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4445-1802
Andrew S DeaneDepartment of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Nathaniel J DominyEcology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-418X
Kallisti FabianDepartment of Cultural Heritage, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, Arusha, Tanzania.
Luke D FanninEcology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-4442
Stephen GaughanInformation, Technology, and Consulting, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Simone V GillDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Josephat GurtuDepartment of Cultural Heritage, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, Arusha, Tanzania.
Ellie GustafsonDepartment of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
Austin C HillDepartment of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8397-8105
Camille JohnsonDepartment of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Said KallindoDepartment of Cultural Heritage, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, Arusha, Tanzania.
Benjamin KilhamKilham Bear Center, Lyme, NH, USA.
Phoebe KilhamKilham Bear Center, Lyme, NH, USA.
Elizabeth KimDepartment of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Cynthia Liutkus-PierceDepartment of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.
Blaine MaleyDepartment of Anatomy, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, Meridian, ID, USA.
Anjali PrabhatDepartment of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
John ReaderDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK.
Shirley RubinDepartment of Anthropology, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-207X
Nathan E ThompsonDepartment of Anatomy, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9273-3636
Rebeca ThornburgDepartment of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
Erin Marie Williams-HatalaDepartment of Biology, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Brian ZimmerDepartment of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.
Charles M MusibaDepartment of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4297-5178
Jeremy M DeSilvaEcology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in the human lineage

Indexed as

FossilsAnimalsArchivesFemaleFootGaitHominidaeHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalLasersMaleModels, BiologicalPan troglodytesPhotogrammetryPhylogenyTanzania

Identifiers

PMID34853470
PMCPMC8674131

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