Human-like external function of the foot, and fully upright gait, confirmed in the 3.66 million year old Laetoli hominin footprints by topographic statistics, experimental footprint-formation and computer simulation

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 69, 2012, Pages 707-719

  Crompton, Robin H ^a   Pataky, Todd C ^b   Savage, Russell ^a   D'Août, Kristiaan ^c   Bennett, Matthew R ^d   Day, Michael H ^e   Bates, Karl ^a   Morse, Sarita ^a,d   Sellers, William I ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Bipedalism; Evolution; Gait; Hominid

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BIPEDALISM; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOOTPRINT MORPHOLOGY; FORCE TRANSFER; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES; FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS; GAIT; GREAT APES; HOMINID; HOMININS; HUMAN FOOT; LAETOLI; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

APE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GAIT; HUMAN; LAETOLI HOMININ; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; STANDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WALKING;

HOMINIDAE; MYA;

EID: 84859394574     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0258     Document Type: Article

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