The evolution of the human foot.

Autor: McNutt EJ; Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.; Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems, and Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire., Zipfel B; Evolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa., DeSilva JM; Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.; Evolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Evolutionary anthropology [Evol Anthropol] 2018 Sep; Vol. 27 (5), pp. 197-217. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Sep 22.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21713
Abstrakt: There are 26 bones in each foot (52 in total), meaning that roughly a quarter of the human skeleton consists of foot bones. Yet, early hominin foot fossils are frustratingly rare, making it quite difficult to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the human foot. Despite the continued paucity of hominid or hominin foot fossils from the late Miocene and early Pliocene, the last decade has witnessed the discovery of an extraordinary number of early hominin foot bones, inviting a reassessment of how the human foot evolved, and providing fresh new evidence for locomotor diversity throughout hominin evolution. Here, we provide a review of our current understanding of the evolutionary history of the hominin foot.
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