(Australopithecus sediba)

Jeremy M DeSilva1, Kenneth G Holt, Steven E Churchill

  • 1Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. jdesilva@bu.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 13, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

アウストラロピテクス・セディバ (Australopithecus sediba) は,足が完全に伸ばされ,足が逆転した状態で歩いていた. この独特な歩行には,足の有意なプロネーションが含まれており,他のオストラロピスとは異なっており,多様なプレオ・プレイストセンの二足歩行を示唆しています.

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