The importance of locomotion to evolutionary fitness has led to extensive study of primate
locomotor behavior, morphology and ecology. Most previous research has focused on adult …

Topology optimization is a powerful tool utilized in various fields for structural design.
However, its application has primarily been restricted to static or passively moving objects …

Opossums are the most diverse and ecologically important group of New World marsupials,
although only the Virginia opossum is familiar to North American residents. In fact, many …

Specialized acrobatic lea** has been recognized as a key adaptive trait tied to the origin
and subsequent radiation of euprimates based on its observed frequency in extant primates …

Arboreal primates have distinctive intrinsic hand proportions compared with many other
mammals. Within Euarchonta, platyrrhines and strepsirrhines have longer manual proximal …

Most functions of the hand are conserved across primates. All primates prehend objects with
a single hand and use the hands and forelimb for postural support and in locomotion …

It has long been assumed that stone tool making was a major factor in the evolution of
derived hominin hand morphology. However, stresses on the hand associated with food …

Primate locomotor evolution, particularly the evolution of bipedalism, is often examined
through morphological studies. Many of these studies have examined the uniqueness of the …

Fine-branch models have long played a central role in primate evolutionary research.
Nevertheless, recent studies of positional behavior in nonprimate arboreal mammals have …

At speeds between the walk and the gallop, most mammals trot. Primates almost never trot,
and it has been claimed that they transition directly from a walk to a gallop without any …