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Energetic efficiency of human bipedality

โœ Scribed by William R. Leonard; Marcia L. Robertson

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
323 KB
Volume
97
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-9483

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โœฆ Synopsis

Over the years, a number of different selective agents have been offered to explain the origin of hominid bipedality. These include tool use and carrying behavior (Hewes, 1961; Washburn, 19631, thennoregulation (Wheeler, 1991), demographic and reproductive constraints (Lovejoy, 19811, and energetic considerations (Carrier, 1984;Rodman and McHenry, 1980). To date, surprisingly few studies have directly examined the energetic efficiency of human bipedality. Consequently, there remains considerable debate about the efficiency of bipedal locomotion compared to quadrupedalism. Taylor and et al. (1970) and Taylor and Rowntree (1973), for example, argued that locomotor efficiency is an unlikely explanation for the origin of human bipedality. They demonstrated that the energetic cost of run-

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