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The Arched Metatarsal of Australopithecus afarensis

February 11, 2011

Carol Ward1, William Kimbel, and Donald Johanson have published a paper in Science on the arch seen in a newly …

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The Galili Femur

October 31, 2008

It has been a while since I blogged anything on paleoanthropology. But once I saw John Hawks‘ post where he …

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A Refined Ar/Ar Date For The ‘Devil’s Footprints’ From The Roccamonfina Volcano In Italy

October 14, 2008

I remember reading a short announcement in 2003 about the discovery of 385,000–325,000 years old human-like footprints near the Roccamonfina …

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Erik Trinkhaus, Tianyuan 1 and Sunghir 1, and the Earliest ‘Evidence’ of Footwear

July 1, 2008

Erik Trinkhaus published a study, along with Hong Shang, in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science on …

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Did early hominins shuffle before they walked upright?

May 30, 2008

I don’t know how I missed this paper, “Stand and shuffle: When does it make energetic sense?” It was published …

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Bill Jungers’ conclusions on Homo floresiensis bipedalism — the clown-footed hominin

April 17, 2008

More reports have been coming out of last week’s meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and one that …

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A Multivariate Analysis of Orrorin tugenensis and the Ancestry of Bipedalism

March 20, 2008

Tomorrow’s issue of the Science will host a reinvestigation of the famous (or infamous?) Orrorin tugenensis. The study, “Orrorin tugenensis …

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A Human Ancestor for the Apes?

December 15, 2007

Do we really need to consider turning everything upside down by considering the existence of a human ancestor for the …

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Evolution of Lordosis and Pregnancy

December 13, 2007

The report published in Nature by Whitcome, Shapiro, and Lieberman reports on a longitudinal study of 19 pregnant women to …

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Aaron Filler’s Video Documents Bipedalism in Siamangs

December 11, 2007

Aaron Filler published a very hard to accept paper about three months ago stating bipedalism could have originated 20 million …

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