Energetic efficiency of human bipedality
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William R. Leonard; Marcia L. Robertson
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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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