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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 & Salvador Moyà-Solà (eds.)

Title
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 & Salvador Moyà-Solà (eds.)
Author
International Senckenberg Conference (13th : 1999 : Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, and Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Publication
Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Obermiller), 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Franzen, Jens Lorenz.
  • Köhler, Meike, Dr.
  • Moyà-Solà, Salvador.
Description
153 p. : ill., 1 map; 30 cm.
Series Statement
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 0341-4116 ; 243
Uniform Title
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 243.
Subject
  • Anatomy, Comparative > Congresses
  • Biological Evolution
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Biomechanics > Congresses
  • Bipedalism > Congresses
  • Evolution > Congresses
  • Forelimb
  • Hominidae
  • Hominids > Congresses
  • Human evolution > Congresses
  • Posture
  • Posture > Congresses
  • Walking
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Congress
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Summaries in German; 1 summary in French.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
3510613570
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library