Complex topography and human evolution: the missing link

Isabelle Winder; Geoffrey King; Maud Devès; Geoffrey Bailey

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00048985

Complex topography and human evolution: the missing link

Isabelle Winder, Geoffrey King, Maud Devès, Geoffrey Bailey

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	333-349
Number of pages	17
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	87
Issue number	336
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00048985
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013

Keywords

Africa
Bipedalism
Hominins
Kenya
Rift valleys
South Africa
Tectonic landscape
Terrestrialisation

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