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Walking upright : results of the 13th International Senckenberg Conference at the Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg v. D. H., and at the Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, October 5-9, 1999 / Jens Lorenz Franzen, Meike Köhler, and Salvador Moyà-Solà (eds.)
Penn Museum Library GN231 .I58 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Senckenberg Conference (13th : 1999 : Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany)
- Series:
- Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 0341-4116 ; 243.
- Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 0341-4116 ; 243
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bipedalism--Congresses.
- Bipedalism.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Obermiller), 2003.
- Contents:
- Principles of upright walking / R.McNeill Alexander
- The influence of three-dimensional movements of the forelimb on the shape of the thorax and its importance for erect body posture / Holger Preuschoft, ... [et al.]
- Human bipedality: mechanical preconditions and morphological adaptations / Hartmut Witte, ... [et al.]
- Skeletal response to bipedalism in macaques: with emphasis on cortical bone distribution of the femus / Masato Nakatsukasa and Sugio Hayama
- Hand bone ratios and their utility in predicting general substrate use in primates / Bradley T. Watkins
- Functional morphology of the lumbar spine in hominoids / Sandra Martelli and Peter Schmid
- Aspects of vertical climbing in gorillas / Karin Isler
- Bipedalism and arboreality in Asutralopithecus / Ronald J. Clarke
- High resolution 3D-image analysis of ape, hominid and human footprints / Ottmar Kullmer, ... [et al.]
- The semicircular canal system and locomotor behaviour, with special reference to hominin evolution / Fred Spoor
- Throwing and bipedalism: a new look at an old idea / Holly Dunsworth, ... [et al.]
- Unterstanding the enigmatic ape Oreopithecus bambolii / Meike Köhler and Salvador Moyà-Solà
- Palaeontological approach to the evolution of hominid bipedalism: the evidence revisited / Brigitte Senut
- The biomechanical evolution of erect bipedality / Robin H. Crompton, ... [et al.]
- Constructions and reconstructing the evolution of human bipedal gait / Jens Lorenz Franzen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3510613570
- OCLC:
- 55229412
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