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First steps : how upright walking made us human
- Title
- First steps : how upright walking made us human / Jeremy DeSilva.
- Author
- DeSilva, Jeremy, 1976-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-7228 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- A Dartmouth anthropologist whose team discovered two ancient human species explores how our evolution toward bipedalism rendered us dominant, innovative, more compassionate, and more susceptible to health problems.
- Human are the only mammals to walk on two rather than four legs, a locomotion known as bipedalism. This has its drawbacks: giving birth is more difficult; our running speed is much slower than that of other animals; and we suffer ailments from hernias to scoliosis. DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seemingly everyday ability is-- and shows how upright walking is a gateway to many of the other attributes that make us human. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-324) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The origin of upright walking. How we walk ; T. rex, the Carolina Butcher, and the first bipeds ; "How the human stood upright" and other just-so stories about bipedalism ; Lucy's ancestors ; Ardi and the River Gods -- Becoming human. Ancient footprints ; Many ways to walk a mile ; Hominins on the move ; Migration to Middle Earth -- Walk of life. Baby steps ; Birth and bipedalism ; Gait differences and what they mean ; Myokines and the cost of immobility ; Why walking helps us think ; Of ostrich feet and knee replacements -- Conclusion: The emphatic ape.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7228
- ISBN
- 9780062938497
- 0062938495
- OCLC
- 1244114018
- Author
- DeSilva, Jeremy, 1976- author.
- Title
- First steps : how upright walking made us human / Jeremy DeSilva.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-324) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7228