The biomechanical evolution of erect bipedality

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 243, 2003, Pages 135-146

  Crompton, Robin H ^a   Thorpe, Susannah ^a   Weijie, Wang ^a   Yu, Li ^a   Payne, Rachel ^a   Savage, Russell ^a   Carey, Tanya ^b   Aerts, Peter ^c   Van Elsacker, Linda ^d   Hofstetter, Angelika ^e   Günther, Michael ^a   Richardson, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Warwickshire College   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Climbing; Foot; Orthograde; Pronograde; Quadrupedalism

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM; EVOLUTION;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10744228179     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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