Implications of early hominid labyrinthine morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion.

Abstract:

:The upright posture and obligatory bipedalism of modern humans are unique among living primates. The evolutionary history of this behaviour has traditionally been pursued by functional analysis of the postcranial skeleton and the preserved footprint trails of fossil hominids. Here we report a systematic attempt to reconstruct the locomotor behaviour of early hominids by looking at a major component of the mechanism for the unconscious perception of movement, namely by examining the vestibular system of living primates and early hominids. High-resolution computed tomography was used to generate cross-sectional images of the bony labyrinth. Among the fossil hominids the earliest species to demonstrate the modern human morphology is Homo erectus. In contrast, the semicircular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great apes. Among early Homo specimens, the canal dimensions of Stw 53 are unlike those seen in any of the hominids or great apes, whereas those of SK 847 are modern-human-like.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Spoor F,Wood B,Zonneveld F

doi

10.1038/369645a0

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-06-23 00:00:00

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645-8

issue

6482

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0028-0836

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1476-4687

journal_volume

369

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