Avoidance of overheating and selection for both hair loss and bipedality in hominins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 20965-20969

  Ruxton, Graeme D ^a   Wilkinson, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY POSTURE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; HAIR LOSS; HEATING; HOMINID; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHADE; STANDING; SUNLIGHT; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; TRAVEL; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GAIT; HAIR; HOMINIDAE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURE; SELECTION, GENETIC; TEMPERATURE; WALKING;

EID: 84855483906     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113915108     Document Type: Article

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