Perimortem fractures in Lucy suggest mortality from fall out of tall tree

2016/08/26 by John Kappelman, Richard A. Ketcham, Stephen Pearce +7 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Anatomy #Arboreal locomotion #Archaeology #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Geography #Human evolution #Paleontology #Paleopathology #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Skeleton (computer programming)

paper · doi:10.1038/nature19332

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• Body mass estimates of hominin fossils and the evolution of human body size
• Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids
• Climbing to the top: A personal memoir ofAustralopithecus afarensis
• New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
• Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution

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• Lucy (hominid) [wikipedia]