The balance between burden carrying, variable terrain, and thermoregulatory pressures in assessing morphological variation

Reconstructing Mobility: Environmental, Behavioral, and Morphological Determinants

Volumn 9781489974600, Issue , 2014, Pages 173-192

  Wall Scheffler, Cara M ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Baby carrying; Cost of transport; Energetics; Limb length; Pelvis; Thermoregulation; Walking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929861070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7460-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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