Some of the most long‐standing questions in paleoanthropology concern how and why
human bipedalism evolved. Over the last century, many hypotheses have been offered on …

An understanding of the evolution of human bipedalism can provide valuable insights into
the biomechanical and physiological characteristics of locomotion in modern humans. The …

Primates include a wide variety of mammals from the relatively ancient lineages of lemurs on
Madagascar and tiny tarsiers of Southeast Asia to the gorillas of montane Africa. Of course …

The relationship between locomotor behavior and long bone structural proportions is
examined in 179 individuals and 13 species of hominoids and cercopithecoids. Articular …

Homo floresiensis was recovered from Late Pleistocene deposits on the island of Flores in
eastern Indonesia, but has the stature, limb proportions and endocranial volume of African …

The vertical‐climbing account of the evolution of locomotor behavior and morphology in
hominid ancestry is reexamined in light of recent behavioral, anatomical, and …

Between 10 and 20 million years ago, a variety of hominoid primates lived in Africa, Europe
and Asia. The question of which of these, if any, lie closest to the ancestries of humans and …

In this study, the forelimb of 12 species of tupaiids was analyzed functionally and compared
to that of other archontan mammals. Several differences that relate to differential substrate …

NEW humeri of two species of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus are described from near
Chinji in Pakistan from between∼ 9 and 11 Myr ago. Sivapithecus, a middle and late …

Vertical climbing has played an important role in theories about the evolution of habitual
bipedalism in early hominids and of locomotor specialization in hominoids. However …