Multisensory integration is essential for maintenance of motor and cognitive abilities, thereby
ensuring normal function and personal autonomy. Balance control is challenged during …

Motion analysis, as applied to evolutionary biomechanics, has experienced its own
evolution over the last 50 years. Here we review how an ever-increasing fossil record …

We addressed postural instability during stance with eyes closed (EC) on a compliant
surface in healthy young people. Spectral analysis of the centre of foot pressure oscillations …

Abstract The StW 573 skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from Sterkfontein Member 2
is some 93% complete and thus by far the most complete member of that genus yet found …

A “smart and surprising”(Booklist)“expansive history”(Publishers Weekly) detailing the role
that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and …

Light touch with an earth-fixed reference point improves balance during quite standing. In
our current study, we implemented a paradigm to assess the effects of disrupting the right …

Abstract (300 words) StW 573, from Sterkfontein Member 2, dated ca 3.67 Ma, is by far the
most complete skeleton of an australopith to date. Joint morphology is in many cases closely …

The human body is exceptional for many reasons, not the least of which is the wide variety of
movements it is capable of executing. Because our species is able to execute so many …

Hypotheses have historically linked the emergence and evolution of defining human
characteristics such as bipedal walking to ground-dwelling, envisioning our earliest …

Hominins are the evolutionary line that led to the genus Homo from the common ancestor
shared with the genus Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos). Early hominins are loosely defined …