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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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Public Library of Science
2010
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| 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 |