Complex topography and human evolution: the missing link

Antiquity - Tập 87 Số 336 - Trang 333-349 - 2013
Isabelle C. Winder1, G. C. P. King1,2, Maud Dévès2, Geoff Bailey1
11Department of Archaeology, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK (Email:
22Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS, Paris, France (Email:

Tóm tắt

Why did humans walk upright? Previous models based on adaptations to forest or savannah are challenged here in favour of physical incentives presented by steep rugged terrain—the kind of tectonically varied landscape that has produced early hominin remains. “Scrambler man” pursued his prey up hill and down dale and in so doing became that agile, sprinting, enduring, grasping, jumping two-legged athlete that we know today.

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