The relative cost of bent-hip bent-knee walking is reduced in water

2009/10/24 by Algis Kuliukas, Algis V. Kuliukas, Nick Milne +1 · 8 citations
Chemistry · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anatomy #Bent molecular geometry #Biology #Bipedalism #Chemistry #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Gait #Knee flexion #Medicine #Physical medicine and rehabilitation #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2009.09.002

published in HOMO 60(6), 479-488 (Elsevier BV)

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Citations

• Climbing to the top: A personal memoir ofAustralopithecus afarensis
• The influence of bipedalism on the energy and water budgets of early hominids
• Pygmy chimpanzee as a possible prototype for the common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and gorillas
• First Observation of Tool Use in Wild Gorillas
• Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio-Pleistocene
• Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches

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• Aquatic ape hypothesis [wikipedia]