Response to comment on "Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches"

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5853, 2007, Pages

  Crompton, R H ^a   Thorpe, S K S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIPEDALISM; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; LOCOMOTION; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

CLIMBING; GAIT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 36248956625     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146580     Document Type: Review

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