From Biped to Strider - The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)

The study of human bipedalism has been overshadowed by many polarized debates. One dispute concerns whether or not australopithecines were wholly terrestrial or retained a degree of arboreality. Another deliberation focuses on the bipedalism of australopithecines compared to modern humans: was it similar, intermediate in nature, or unique? Because of the preoccupation with discussions such as these, the significant fact that modern human walking is more than locomotion on two legs has been underemphasized.
This volume focuses on the pattern and process of the transition to the modern form of human locomotion, with its adaptations for a striding stiff-legged gait, efficiency of running, and economy of resource transport. This emerging group of contributors spanning the fields of anthropology, biology and anatomy debate issues such as:
-When and in what sequence did these morphological traits appear?
-What were the changes in the bio-behavioral complex of hominin locomotor evolution?
-What were the implications for the enhancement and expansion of hominin mobility?

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2004
First published:	March 2004
Editors:	D. Jeffrey Meldrum • Charles E. Hilton
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	213
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-48000-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General
LSN:	0-306-48000-X
Barcode:	9780306480003

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