Laetoli Footprints Preserve Earliest Direct Evidence of Human-Like Bipedal Biomechanics

BACKGROUND: Debates over the evolution of hominin bipedalism, a defining human characteristic, revolve around whether early bipeds walked more like humans, with energetically efficient extended hind limbs, or more like apes with flexed hind limbs. The 3.6 million year old hominin footprints at Laeto...

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Autores principales: Raichlen, David A., Gordon, Adam D., Harcourt-Smith, William E. H., Foster, Adam D., Haas, Wm. Randall
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20339543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009769

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20339543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009769

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