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From Biped to Strider

The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport

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Editors:
  1. D. Jeffrey Meldrum

    1. Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA

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  2. Charles E. Hilton

    1. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Striders, Runners, and Transporters

    • Charles E. Hilton, D. Jeffrey Meldrum
    Pages 1-8

  3. Knuckle-Walking and the Origin of Human Bipedalism

    • David R. Begun
    Pages 9-33

  4. A New Hypothesis on the Origin of Hominoid Locomotion

    • Yvette Deloison
    Pages 35-47

  5. Functional Interpretation of the Laetoli Footprints

    • Peter Schmid
    Pages 49-62

  6. Fossilized Hawaiian Footprints Compared with Laetoli Hominid Footprints

    • D. Jeffrey Meldrum
    Pages 63-83

  7. In What Manner Did They Walk on Two Legs?

    • Gilles Berillon
    Pages 85-100

  8. The Behavioral Ecology of Locomotion

    • Patricia Ann Kramer
    Pages 101-115

  9. Bipedalism in Homo ergaster: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Tibial Proportions on Locomotor Biomechanics

    • Laura Tobias Gruss, Daniel Schmitt
    Pages 117-134

  10. The Running-Fighting Dichotomy and the Evolution of Aggression in Hominids

    • David Carrier
    Pages 135-162

  11. Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers

    • Charles E. Hilton, Russell D. Greaves
    Pages 163-181

  12. Mobility and the Locomotor Skeleton at the Foraging to Farming Transition

    • Marsha D. Ogilvie
    Pages 183-201

  13. Uplifted Head, Free Hands, and the Evolution of Human Walking

    • Henry M. McHenry
    Pages 203-210

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 211-213
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About this book

The inspiration for this volume of contributed papers stemmed from conversations between the editors in front of Chuck Hilton's poster on the determinants of hominid walking speed, presented at thel998 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). Earlier at those meetings, Jeff Meldrum (with Roshna Wunderlich) had presented an alternate interpretation of the Laetoli footprints based on evidence of midfoot flexibility. As the discussion ensued we found convergence on a number of ideas about the nature of the evolution of modem human walking. From the continuation of that dialogue grew the proposal for a symposium which we called From Biped to Strider: the Emergence of Modem Human Walking. The symposium was held as a session of the 69th annual meeting of the AAPA, held in San Antonio, Texas in 2000. It seemed to us that the study of human bipedalism had become overshadowed by theoften polarized debates over whether australo­ pithecines were wholly terrestrial in habit, or retained a significant degree of arboreality.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA

    D. Jeffrey Meldrum

  • Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

    Charles E. Hilton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Biped to Strider

  • Book Subtitle: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport

  • Editors: D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Charles E. Hilton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8965-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47999-1Published: 31 March 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48000-3Published: 31 March 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8965-9Published: 27 June 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 213

  • Topics: Archaeology, Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology

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