Many of the unresolved debates in palaeoanthropology regarding evolution of particular
locomotor or manipulative behaviours are founded in differing opinions about the functional …

For several decades, it was largely assumed that stone tool use and production were
abilities limited to the genus Homo. However, growing palaeontological and archaeological …

Biomechanics theory provides new ways to reconstruct behavior in past populations.
Application of biomechanical beam models to long bone diaphyses has proven to be a …

Phenotypic integration is a pervasive characteristic of organisms. Numerous analyses have
demonstrated that patterns of phenotypic integration are conserved across large clades, but …

Humans are unique, compared with our closest living relatives (chimpanzees) and early
fossil hominins, in having an enlarged body size and lower limb joint surfaces in …

The distinctly human ability for forceful precision and power “squeeze” grip** is linked to
two key evolutionary transitions in hand use: a reduction in arboreal climbing and the …

While there is broad agreement that early hominins practiced some form of terrestrial
bipedality, there is also evidence that arboreal behavior remained a part of the locomotor …

The human lineage is marked by a transition in hand use, from locomotion towards
increasingly dexterous manipulation, concomitant with bipedalism. The forceful precision …

Primate fingers are typically in direct contact with the environment during both locomotion
and manipulation, and aspects of external phalangeal morphology are known to reflect …

Objectives Research on a limited number of samples suggests that trabecular bone density
(ie, bone volume fraction, BVF) within specific articulations is lower among more sedentary …