A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7391, 2012, Pages 565-569

  Haile Selassie, Yohannes ^a,b   Saylor, Beverly Z ^b   Deino, Alan ^c   Levin, Naomi E ^d   Alene, Mulugeta ^e   Latimer, Bruce M ^b  

^a CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FOOTPRINT; HOMINID; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PLIOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKELETON;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; BIPEDALISM; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; ETHIOPIA; FOOT; FOSSIL HOMINID; HALLUX; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; METATARSAL BONE; NONHUMAN; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UPPER PLIOCENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ETHIOPIA; FOOT; FOOT BONES; FOSSILS; GAIT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WALKING;

ETHIOPIA;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS;

EID: 84859208148     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10922     Document Type: Article

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