Early hominin foot morphology based on 1.5-million-year-old footprints from Ileret, Kenya

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5918, 2009, Pages 1197-1201

  Bennett, Matthew R ^a   Harris, John W K ^b   Richmond, Brian G ^c,d   Braun, David R ^e   Mbua, Emma ^f   Kiura, Purity ^f   Olago, Daniel ^g   Kibunjia, Mzalendo ^f   Omuombo, Christine ^g   Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^d   Huddart, David ^h   Gonzalez, Silvia ^h  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^h LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOOTPRINT; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CALCANEUS; EVOLUTION; FOOT; FOSSIL; GAIT; HALLUX; HUMAN; KENYA; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; TARSAL BONE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; FOOT; FOSSILS; GAIT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALLUX; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; LOCOMOTION; PRESSURE; SOFTWARE; TOES;

AFRICA; ARUSHA [TANZANIA]; EAST AFRICA; LAETOLI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 61349164871     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168132     Document Type: Article

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