Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis
The evolution of bipedalism and reduced reliance on arboreality in hominins resulted in larger lower limb joints relative to the joints of the upper limb. The pattern and timing of this transition, however, remains unresolved. Here, we find the limb joint proportions of Australopithecus afarensis, H...
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Auteurs principaux: | Anjali M Prabhat, Catherine K Miller, Thomas Cody Prang, Jeffrey Spear, Scott A Williams, Jeremy M DeSilva |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2021
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