Comment on "Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches"

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5853, 2007, Pages

  Begun, D R ^a   Richmond, B G ^b   Strait, D S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIPEDALISM; HOMINID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION;

BODY POSTURE; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; EVOLUTION; HAND; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; POSTURE; TREES; WALKING;

EID: 36249014776     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146446     Document Type: Review

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