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The African ape-like foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications for the origin of bipedalism

The ancestral condition from which humans evolved is critical for understanding the adaptive origin of bipedal locomotion. The 4.4 million-year-old hominin partial skeleton attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus preserves a foot that purportedly shares morphometric affinities with monkeys, but this inte...

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Autor principal: Prang, Thomas Cody
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6491036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31038121
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44433

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