From Biped to Strider The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport
The inspiration for this volume of contributed papers stemmed from conversations between the editors in front of Chuck Hilton's poster on the determinants of hominid walking speed, presented at thel998 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). Earlier at those mee...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2004, 2004
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2004 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Striders, Runners, and Transporters
- 2 Knuckle-Walking and the Origin of Human Bipedalism
- 3 A New Hypothesis on the Origin of Hominoid Locomotion
- 4 Functional Interpretation of the Laetoli Footprints
- 5 Fossilized Hawaiian Footprints Compared with Laetoli Hominid Footprints
- 6 In What Manner Did They Walk on Two Legs? An Architectural Perspective for the Functional Diagnostics of the Early Hominid Foot
- 7 The Behavioral Ecology of Locomotion
- 8 Bipedalism in Homo ergaster: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Tibial Proportions on Locomotor Biomechanics
- 9 The Running-Fighting Dichotomy and the Evolution of Aggression in Hominids
- 10 Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers
- 11 Mobility and the Locomotor Skeleton at the Foraging to Farming Transition
- 12 Uplifted Head, Free Hands, and the Evolution of Human Walking