Muscle force production during bent-knee, bent-hip walking in humans

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 294-302

  Foster, Adam D ^a   Raichlen, David A ^a   Pontzer, Herman ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Energetics; Evolution of bipedalism; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIPEDALISM; HOMINID; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; WALKING;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; PAN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CHIMPANZEE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM; FEMALE; HIP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WALKING;

CHIMPANZEE; ENERGETICS; EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM; LOCOMOTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; POSTURE; UPPER EXTREMITY; WALKING;

EID: 84883459928     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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