Browsing Masters Theses by Department "Evolutionary Anthropology"
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The Bent Hip and Bent Knee Gait and its Possible Role in the Evolution of Modern Human Bipedalism
(2010)The relatively stiff gait of modern humans minimizes the muscular work done to move the lower limbs and the center of mass. Nonhuman primates, and perhaps our earliest ancestors, use a form of bipedalism in which the hip ...
