Environment and climate of early human evolution

NE Levin - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Evaluating the relationships between climate, the environment, and human traits is a key
part of human origins research because changes in Earth's atmosphere, oceans …

One small step: A review of Plio‐Pleistocene hominin foot evolution

J DeSilva, E McNutt, J Benoit… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bipedalism is a hallmark of being human and the human foot is modified to reflect this
unique form of locomotion. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with calling the human foot “a …

Stiffness of the human foot and evolution of the transverse arch

M Venkadesan, A Yawar, CM Eng, MA Dias, DK Singh… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The stiff human foot enables an efficient push-off when walking or running, and was critical
for the evolution of bipedalism,,,,–. The uniquely arched morphology of the human midfoot is …

An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

Y Haile-Selassie, BM Latimer… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Only one partial skeleton that includes both forelimb and hindlimb elements has been
reported for Australopithecus afarensis. The diminutive size of this specimen (AL 288-1 [" …

Human-like external function of the foot, and fully upright gait, confirmed in the 3.66 million year old Laetoli hominin footprints by topographic statistics, experimental …

RH Crompton, TC Pataky, R Savage… - Journal of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is commonly held that the major functional features of the human foot (eg a functional
longitudinal medial arch, lateral to medial force transfer and hallucal (big-toe) push-off) …

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

M Stewart, R Clark-Wilson, PS Breeze, K Janulis… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

[图书][B] Eruptions that shook the world

C Oppenheimer - 2011 - books.google.com
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions
extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a …

[图书][B] Эволюция человека

А Марков - 2011 - elibrary.ru
Новая книга Александра Маркова-это увлекательный рассказ о происхождении и
устройстве человека, основанный на последних исследованиях в антропологии …

[HTML][HTML] Terminal Pleistocene epoch human footprints from the Pacific coast of Canada

D McLaren, D Fedje, A Dyck, Q Mackie, A Gauvreau… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Little is known about the ice age human occupation of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Here we
present the results of a targeted investigation of a late Pleistocene shoreline on Calvert …

Ecological Energetics in Early Homo

H Pontzer - Current Anthropology, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
Models for the origin of the genus Homo propose that increased quality of diet led to
changes in ranging ecology and selection for greater locomotor economy, speed, and …