Hominin stature, body mass, and walking speed estimates based on 1.5 million-year-old fossil footprints at Ileret, Kenya

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 556-568

  Dingwall, Heather L ^a,e   Hatala, Kevin G ^a,b   Wunderlich, Roshna E ^c   Richmond, Brian G ^a,d  

^a THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Body size; Homo; Human evolution; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; FOOTPRINT; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; VELOCITY; WALKING;

KENYA;

HOMO ERECTUS; PARANTHROPUS BOISEI;

EID: 84877671882     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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