From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0306479990 ISBN 13: 9780306479991

Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2003

Riassunto

The study of human bipedalism has been overshadowed by many polarized debates. One dispute concerns whether or not australopithecines were wholly terrestrial or retained a degree of arboreality. Another deliberation focuses on the bipedalism of australopithecines compared to modern humans: was it similar, intermediate in nature, or unique? Because of the preoccupation with discussions such as these, the significant fact that modern human walking is more than locomotion on two legs has been underemphasized. This volume focuses on the pattern and process of the transition to the modern form of human locomotion, with its adaptations for a striding stiff-legged gait, efficiency of running, and economy of resource transport. This emerging group of contributors spanning the fields of anthropology, biology and anatomy debate issues such as: - When and in what sequence did these morphological traits appear? - What were the changes in the bio-behavioral complex of hominin locomotor evolution? - What were the implications for the enhancement and expansion of hominin mobility? This essential reading will be of interest to biological, paleontological, and physical anthropologists and students in these fields. 'This is the book I have been waiting for. Community Operational Research has shown that analysis can be used not only for, but also with, community groups, helping them to gain more control of their situations. What Midgley and Ochoa-Arias' volume does is provide not only rich examples of grass-roots practice, but also thought-provoking theoretical explorations. The editors have a point of view, but they allow space for debate with those who interpret Community OR differently.' Jonathan Rosenhead (Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics and Political Science; Ex-President of the Operational Research Society) '.What the many authors in this book have in common is a commitment to serve the interests of all those affected by a community's behavior - its stakeholders. This is acquiring a new significance as we decreasingly conceptualize corporations and organizations in general as organisms, and begin to think of them, as Charles Handy has, as communities.' Russell Ackoff (Professor Emeritus of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania; Ex-President of ORSA; Vice President of TIMS)

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Contenuti

1. Striders, Runners, Transporters; C.E. Hilton, D.J. Meldrum. 2. Knuckle-walking and the Origin of Bipedalism; D.R. Begun. 3. A New Hypothesis on the Origin of Hominoid Locomotion; Y. Deloison. 4. Functional Interpretation of the Laetoli Footprints; P. Schmid. 5. Fossilized Hawaiian Footprints Compared with Laetoli Hominid Footprints; D.J. Meldrum. 6. In What Manner Did They Walk on Two Legs? An Architectural Perspective For the Functional Diagnostics of the Early Hominid Foot; G. Berillon. 7. Bipedalism in Homo ergaster: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Tibial Torsion on Locomotor Biomechanics; L. Tobias Gruss, D. Schmitt. 8. The Running Fighting Dichotomy and Hominid Evolution; D.R. Carrier. 9. Exploring the Locomotor System of a Biped through a Behavioral Ecology and Life History Perspective; P.A. Kramer. 10. Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers; C.E. Hilton, R.D. Greaves. 11. Mobility and the locomotor skeleton at the foraging to farming transition; M.D. Ogilvie. 12. Uplifted Head, Free Hands, and the Evolution of Human Walking; H.M. McHenry.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306479990
• ISBN 13: 9780306479991
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Redattore: Hilton Charles E., Meldrum D. Jeffrey
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