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Class Slides Set 15A Bipedalism Legs/Feet and Pelvis

Class Slides Set 15A Bipedalism Legs/Feet and Pelvis. Bipedalism Legs/Feet and Pelvis. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529140042.htm. www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/02/genetics.medicalresearch.

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Class Slides Set 15A Bipedalism Legs/Feet and Pelvis

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  1. Class Slides Set15A Bipedalism Legs/Feet and Pelvis

  2. Bipedalism Legs/Feet and Pelvis

  3. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529140042.htm

  4. www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/02/genetics.medicalresearchwww.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/02/genetics.medicalresearch

  5. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0008EB7D-BC26-1138-BC2683414B7F0000http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0008EB7D-BC26-1138-BC2683414B7F0000

  6. Arm swinging and erect (bipedal) or semi-erect walking resulted in a number of postcranial changes

  7. Postcranial = below the head (with bipeds) behind the head (with quadrupeds)

  8. Postcrania New World monkey Modern human Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., pp. 200, 429, 121

  9. Apes The ability to assume a fairly erect posture produced important changes

  10. Chimpanzee The Primates, Time-Life (1974) p. 71

  11. Bipedal Locomotion Why bipedalism?

  12. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  13. Bipedalism Bipedalism is related to tool use

  14. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  15. Positive Feedback Systems. Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 275

  16. Acheulian biface (“hand axe”) Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 239

  17. Bipedalism more about bipedalism and to tool use later

  18. Bipedalism Bipedalism also makes hunting more energy efficient

  19. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  20. The Primates, Time-Life (1974) p. 44

  21. Bipedalism Seed and nut gathering and Feeding from bushes

  22. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  23. Bipedalism Bipedalism and vision (visual surveillance)

  24. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  25. Eye Level and Sight. Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 114

  26. Bipedalism Bipedalism and Long-distance walking

  27. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  28. Bipedalism Male help in “provisioning” Owen Lovejoy “provisioning hypothesis”

  29. Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  30. Pliocene Adaptations. (Lovejoy) Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 270

  31. Bipedalism Bipedalism and other hominid traits

  32. Not on the chart Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  33. Bipedalism body temperature

  34. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/1468591.stm

  35. http://www.sunspot.net/sports/baseball/bal-te.sp.orioles18feb18,0,360173.story?coll=bal-utility-baseballhttp://www.sunspot.net/sports/baseball/bal-te.sp.orioles18feb18,0,360173.story?coll=bal-utility-baseball

  36. Bipedalism R. Falk (1989) suggested that bipedalism resulted in the development of a cooling mechanism for the brain. CA 31:2:187

  37. Body Surface and Solar Radiation. Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 268

  38. Not on the chart Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  39. Bipedalism may have been an arboreal forest adaptation

  40. Week 07 Video: Search for the First Human -- A Secrets of the Dead Special

  41. Not on the chart Possible Factors Influencing the Initial Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion in Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 217

  42. Bipedal walking resulted in a number of postcranial changes in the legs and feet . . .

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