Spinopelvic pathways to bipedality: Why no hominids ever relied on a bent-hip-bent-knee gait

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1556, 2010, Pages 3289-3299

  Lovejoy, C Owen ^a   McCollum, Melanie A ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ardipithecus; Australopithecus; Bent hip bent knee; Bipedality; Human evolution

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIPEDALISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY;

ARDIPITHECUS; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN;

EID: 77958037798     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0112     Document Type: Article

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