Projektnummer

0055614

Zusammenfassung

Interpretation of fossil limb specimens has greatly contributed to our understanding of the role of bipedalism in human evolution. For example, researchers have relied on both internal and external femoral traits to infer bipedal adaptation in Orrorin tugenensis. However, comparative studies have demonstrated equifinality in the internal femoral architecture of bipedal humans and pronograde quadrupedal primates that have similar weight distributions on the hind limb during locomotion. A wider comparative study of external femoral morphology is still needed to fully understand the funct...