The African ape-like foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications for the origin of bipedalism
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DOI: 10.7554/elife.44433
Abstract: The ancestral condition from which humans evolved is critical for understanding the adaptive origin of bipedal locomotion. The 4.4 million-year-old hominin partial skeleton attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus preserves a foot that purportedly shares morphometric affinities… read more here.
Keywords: ramidus; bipedalism; ape like; foot ... See more keywords