Functional morphology of the ankle and the likelihood of climbing in early hominins
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Summary
This study finds that chimpanzees engage in an extraordinary range of foot dorsiflexion and inversion during vertical climbing bouts, and concludes that if hominins included tree climbing as part of their locomotor repertoire, then they were performing this activity in a manner decidedly unlike modern chimpanzees.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2009-04-21
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 63
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Climbing, Bipedalism, Hominidae, Biology, Ankle
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