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INFORMATION TRANSITIONS. "A major evolutionary transition has been most broadly defined as a change in the way that heritable information is stored and transmitted." https://lnkd.in/eia5GWQ View in LinkedIn

TRAVERSE ARCHES. "The transition to full-time terrestrial bipedality is a hallmark of human evolution. A key correlate of human bipedalism is the development of longitudinal and transverse arches of the foot that provide a rigid propulsive lever and critical shock absorption during striding bipedal gait." https://lnkd.in/eezgP6D View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX STORY. "In light of the richness of recent findings in the hominin fossil record, it is important to ask the question of whether the evolution of bipedalism was a more complex affair than has previously been suggested." https://lnkd.in/eezgP6D View in LinkedIn

MULTIPLE PATHS. "If correct, this would imply that there was more locomotor diversity in the fossil record than has been suggested, and raises questions over whether there was a single origin for bipedalism or not. At the very least, if bipedalism appeared only once in the hominin radiation and is therefore monophyletic, such evidence would suggest that there were multiple evolutionary pathways responding to that selection pressure." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00296.x/full View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. "The prevailing view in the earlier literature on the evolution of bipedalism has been a particularly linear one, with the usual pattern being a neat series of steps from arboreal quadruped to obligate biped. As more fossil evidence accumulated, some researchers entertained the possibility of locomotor diversity in contemporary early hominins, but this view was far from prevalent." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00296.x/full View in LinkedIn

GAIT DIVERSITY. "Based on this inferred diversity and supported by the existing evidence for postcranial diversity, it is not unreasonable to assume that there was also a considerable degree of locomotor diversity in the early hominins." A variety of designs had to exist. https://lnkd.in/eicfqZV View in LinkedIn

HOMINOID DIVERSITY. "Recent discoveries of taxa such as Kenyanthropus platyops, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis and Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba suggest a far wider degree of taxonomic diversity in the African fossil hominin record than had previously been thought." Not so simple as once thought. https://lnkd.in/eicfqZV View in LinkedIn

GORILLA PORTAL. "Comparative analysis of the human, anthropoid, and other primate feet clearly indicates that the foot of man was evolved from a grasping, arboreal type such as is peculiar to the modern great apes. Furthermore, the great ape or gorilloid type of foot presents an intermediate stage in structural and functional modification through which, of necessity, the evolutionary development of the human foot had to pass." https://lnkd.in/eXEMMAm View in LinkedIn

THE FAIRY STORY. "It all used to seem so simple. The human lineage evolved in Africa. Only at a relatively late date did early humans finally migrate from the continent of their birth, in the guise of the long-known species Homo erectus, whose first representatives had arrived in eastern Asia by around one million years ago." https://lnkd.in/ejdbPT4 View in LinkedIn

NOT DESIGNED FROM SCRATCH. "The origin of our feet dates back to lobe-finned fishes, and has evolved into five-rayed, weight supporting structures since." https://lnkd.in/esuQhhw View in LinkedIn