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(2008) focus on paleoanatomy. (20 Marks) b) How did Radcliffe-Brown and Levi-Strauss study kinship in terms of social structure? Am Anthropol 55:481–498, Bearder SK (2000) Flood brothers. According to Stauffer et al. Such a kind of semiterrestrial ancestor was also postulated by Sénut et al. All this indicates that the posture and locomotion of the first hominoid ancestors of human beings were probably neither specialised for arboreal nor for terrestrial posture and locomotion. 2002), which is in agreement with Niemitz (2004). Hence, a higher position of the head may be of positive selective value (cf. Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba fossils were recovered from strata of the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia that date, according to paleontological methods, “to 5.2−5.8 Ma and are associated with a wooded paleoenvironment. 0000048261 00000 n
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Add your answer and earn points. The specialisations of extant orang-utans are manifold and not at all restricted to locomotor features, but also to marked ecological and behavioural differences from African apes. 2.) Public Library of Science, 3/11, Nov 2005, Brunet M, Guy F, Pilbeam D, Mackaye H, Likius A, Ahounta D, Beauvilain A, Blondel C, Bocherens H, Boisserie J-R, De Bonis L, Coppens Y, Dejax J, Denys C, Duringer P, Eisenmann V, Fanone G, Fronty P, Geraads D, Lehmann T, Lihoreau F, Louchar A, Mahamat A, Merceron G, Mouchelin G, Otero O, Campomanes P, Ponce De Leon M, Rage J-C, Sapanet M, Schuster M, Sudre J, Tassy P, Valentin X, Vignaud P, Viriot L, Zazzo A, Zollikofer C (2002) A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. The manifold hypotheses and theories on the evolution of human upright posture and gait have their own intriguing history. Academic, London, Niemitz C (2000) A theory on the evolution of human bipedalism—Die Amphibische Generalistentheorie. Primates 45:97–104, Shabel A (2005) The paleobiology of the robust australopithecines (Paranthropus): a test of the durophage model with carbon isotope analysis. 0000003170 00000 n
The article, “Kinship in a Footprint?” by Michael Day, delves into the significance of bipedalism in hominin evolution and the different ways in which bipedalism is studied. Ape species known to be predominantly vegetarian seem to easily gain a precious animal protein supplement to their vegetarian food by taking a quadrupedal walk on the shore (Fig. Fighting and the evolution of bipedal posture in hominins. Evol Anthropol 9:113–133, Steudel-Numbers KL, Weaver TD, Wall-Scheffler CM (2007) The evolution of human running: effects of changes in lower-limb length on locomotor economy. in 1995. Moreover, the fossil remains revealed increasing evidence that this part of human evolution took place in a more humid environment than previously assumed. Secondly, they were all placed into a savannah scenario. Former hypotheses, placing this process into a savannah environment, are only discussed briefly, if they have either largely determined the discussion for a long period of time, or if some of their aspects are of continuing importance within the discussion of more recent hypotheses. Human bipedalism Bipedalism, as a descriptive term for the use of two legs for standing and locomotion, can be applied to a variety of animals. The absence of evidence in the fossil record for tool use does, indeed, not necessarily mean the evidence for absence. In: McDade MC (ed) Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia. On the one hand, these authors point out: “It can be envisioned that the performance of unique bipedal displays, occasionally resulted, by dint of their sheer novelty, in the winning of encounters between males from different groups by their surprising effect” (my italics). In: Day MH (ed) Vertebrate locomotion. In contrast to all other theories, wading behaviour not only triggers an upright posture, but also forces the individual to maintain this position and to walk bipedally. 0000005857 00000 n
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The molar teeth of a macaque (a Moreover, our ancestor was also not specialized to any specific locomotor habits as it was a semiterrestrial ecological generalist. The invention and discovery of tools may also have led to bipedalism in human ancestors. However, neither any of the African apes nor any other quadrupedal primate model referred to above is an exclusively arboreal creature. Today, the evolutionary acquisition of a bipedal posture and locomotion is placed into a rather forested habitat (e.g., WoldeGabriel et al. Nature 434:752–755, Cant JHG (1987) Positional behavior of female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). This opinion of Richmond and coauthors provoked harsh contradictions, firstly on methodological grounds relating to the mathematical methods applied, as well as on the question, how to read the results phylogenetically (Dainton 2001) and secondly for reasons of functional anatomy (Lovejoy et al. Nature 432:345–352, CAS 1998). According to Simons (1992), Proconsul “was probably broadly ancestral to modern great apes”. 1995, 1999; Young 2003). All nonhuman primates … Thermographic pictures of a a macaque (M. fuscata), b a pygmy chimpanzee (bonobo, Pan paniscus), c and d human beings. Institut für Humanbiologie und Anthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany, You can also search for this author in This is consistent with the fact that several authors claimed an increasing scarcity of food caused by the fragmentation of the forest during that time (e.g., Jablonski and Chaplin 1993). Investigating Scandentia (treeshrews) and primates, Niemitz (2002) has shown that, besides arboreal species, semiterrestrial and terrestrial treeshrews and primates also occur. 0000046565 00000 n
Plenum Press, New York, pp 509–524, Rose MD (1991) The process of bipedalization in hominids. In contrast, a dead body in the savannah is most likely to be chewed up by hyenas, and the last bony fragments are scattered by jackals and lost. The authors find that, “during the Miocene... orangutan ancestors became more specialized, and restricted to, shrinking closed canopy forest that could be traversed at canopy level”. CR Palevol 3:265–276, Sénut B, Pickford M, Gommery D, Mein P, Cheboi K, Coppens Y (2001) First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino formation, Kenya). a) Discuss the evolutionary significance of bipedalism and erect posture. Including baboons, the same author stated: “Chimpanzees stood bipedally more often than baboons (0.3% versus never)” (Hunt 1996). In such a situation of harvesting food, bipedality is often assisted by pulling or support of the upper extremity (Wrangham 1980; Hunt 1994). and grassland (bovids, tridactyl equids)”. The prehuman primate, which until that point had covered only short distances on dry land—such as the one to its nightly sleeping tree—remained upright. 0000050211 00000 n
As a general notion, the authors conclude that the “Amphibische Generalistentheorie” “appears extremely plausible to us” (Aspöck and Walochnik 2007). Plon, Paris, Demes B, Larsen SG, Stern JT, Biknevicius AR, Schmitt D (1994) The kinetics of primate quadrupedalism: hindlimb drive reconsidered. 2002), intensified and elaborated tool use beyond the chimpanzee scale appeared only 2 or 2.5 Ma before present (Semaw et al. Those of orang-utan (b Changes in Foot due to assumption of Erect Posture:- With the assumption of erect posture and bipedal walk, the hind limb is no longer a grasping organ but locomotory organ. This shows that terrestrial quadrupedalism does not favour longer legs, which is in agreement with Witte et al. 2007a). Also note the limb proportions and the horizontal spine (cf. In the past, it was taken for granted that the former presence of shallow water at the location of an excavation site of a hominid fossil was a logical consequence, there, of the relatively high chances for fossilisation. Int J Primatol 9:233–255, Blumenshine RJ, Cavallo JA (1992) Scavenging and human evolution. However, further functional factors were necessary to establish the habitual erect posture and especially, habitual upright walking behaviour. PDF | This article aimed to review various theories of bipedalism and provide a holistic answer to human evolution. 0000002929 00000 n
This posture raises the head higher up which gives the animals a wider field of view to look for prey and keep an eye out for predators. Among mammals, orang-utans belong to the heaviest canopy dwellers of the world. If the water is deep enough, this refers also to the lower vertebral joints. This bears a variety of obstacles for the hypothesis discussed here, because the danger to misinterpret possible autapomorphic features of the specialised orang-utans after their long genetic separation from the African apes. M. nemestrina) or of gorilla (c Science 316:1328–1331, Tuttle RH (1967) Knuckle-walking and the evolution of hominoid hands. To the author's conviction, the Aquatic Ape Theory, as described by Morgan (1990) did neither fulfil the criteria of a hypothesis nor of a theory. Also, Washburn (1967) stated the opinion that carrying babies might have elicited bipedal locomotion. Here, it has to be kept in mind that an optimised modern human bipedality was still far from achieved, and after millions of years of selection, “the net costs of running and walking in humans... are not remarkable for an animal of its size” (Rubenson et al. Plenum Press, New York, pp 397–418, Ishida H, Kunimatsu Y, Takano T, Nakano Y, Nakatsukasa M (2004) Nacholapithecus skeleton from the middle Miocene of Kenya. Niemitz 2006, 2007). Nature 434:755–759. J Hum Evol 46:163–184, Zollikofer CPE, Ponce de Léon MS, Lieberman DE, Guy F, Pilbeam D, Likius A, Mackaye HT, Vignaud P, Brunet M (2005) Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. In an unpublished manuscript, Kirschmann and Young write: “We suggest, that the specialization to use weapons... was a key adaptation for early hominids. Griffin and Kram 2000). The manifold hypotheses and theories on the evolution of human upright posture and gait have their own intriguing history. Students should have a basic understanding of osteology (i.e. In: Franzen JF, Köhler M, Moyà-Solà S (eds) Walking upright. Science 179:186–187, Thorpe SKS, Crompton RH (2006) Orang-utan positional behavior and the nature of arboreal locomotion in Hominoidea. It has clearly been demonstrated that an erect locomotion performed by quadrupedal primates is highly energy consuming (e.g., Lovejoy 1978; Wang 1999; Nakatsukasa et al. Besides new evolutionary acquisitions, the teeth of human beings (d He writes that bipedalism and upright posture are behavioral responses in relation to the environment for primate species. CAS Thus, this hypothesis describes a putative evolutionary development dated far later than the beginning of habitual bipedalism. The main problem and cause of not a few academic disputes over human evolution in the past was the uncertainty about the time, when which part of the human evolution took place. More recently, Morgan (1997) has stressed more the littoral aspects of her ideas, approaching, to some extent, Niemitz's conclusions (2000, 2004). From a current perspective, this hypothesis is pleasant and somewhat disturbing at the same time: “We propose that the bipedal displays of pre-hominids led to resolution of intragroup conflict almost exclusively by ritual and gesture and only very rarely deteriorated into injurious attacks.” The attractive aspect is that bipedal threat displays are assumed to combine the evolution of bipedalism with the acquisition of a conflict-solving signal. Considering the size of this area, it seems possible that there was more than one “experimental” transitional species. Along with water plants such as large bulks of algae (Hanuman langur) and Nymphea roots (baboons, Toque macaques), fresh water shrimps, snails, and fish are the kinds of food that have been reported most. The primary weapons of most primates are their jaws and large canine teeth. The axial skeleton, as well as functional limb anatomy, “suggest that Nacholapithecus with arboreal climbing abilities (Sénut et al. In: Tax S (ed) Evolution after Darwin. (2001; cf. In: Begun DR, Ward CV, Rose MD (eds) Function, phylogeny and fossils: Miocene hominoid evolution and adaptations. 15 Elucidate Mesolithic culture and associated rock art with examples from 15 India. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:11747–11750, Köhler M, Moyà-Solà S (1997b) The evolution from pronograde to orthograde posture and locomotion: implications for bipedality. Although it is not a significant shift from primitive tools of the type chimpanzees use today, such as ‘termite sticks’... to simple and readily available natural articles that could be used to enhance carrying ability, it is a significant shift from such primitive and occasional tool use to the stone tools of basal Pleistocene.” He argues that provisioning was necessary, being one feature of the intensified parental care of early human antecedents increasing the survival rate of infants. 0000012592 00000 n
(2008) emphasise the occurrence of the heel-strike in the orang-utan and discuss this phenomenon together with “the highly extended hip and knee in voluntary bipedalism of orang-utans” (p. 506). The heel-strike shown in their photograph, however, occurs with flexed hip and extended knee, while the “clearly double humped curves in 25% of cases” exemplified by a graph, shows a clearly unimodal curve with only one hump. 1999; Sénut 2007), although the debate on this topic is still going on: "Its locomotion has been variously reconstructed as sloth-like, ape-like, and human-like, and it has been placed in almost every possible catarrhine group, from the cercopithecoids to the hominins" (Cartmill et al. Sometimes, one may read, expressively or implicitly, at which time or why monkeys or apes gave up their lives in the trees in order to start a bipedal terrestrial way of living. volume 97, pages241–263(2010)Cite this article. 2004), the postcranial remains suggesting a prevalence of orthograde climbing activities. It is suggested here, that many hypotheses or main aspects of them may contribute decisively to an image of human evolution, if they are assigned to their correct period. On the other hand, although the largely bipedal australopithecines still possess rather short hind limbs, the Amphibian Generalist Theory or Shore Dweller Hypothesis offers several functional, i.e., selective, factors for the evolutionary beginnings of longer hind extremities from the very start of upright locomotion and posture (c.f. startxref
(2007a), but include also, e.g., enamel structures of the teeth and many further traits (cf. Moreover, in all of his main articles (1984, 1985, 1990, 1991a, b), Wheeler expressly related this evolutionary development to a savannah scenario, which has been shown to refer to a later stage in already bipedal hominins. But the ecological and behavioural setting for the very beginning of upright postures and locomotion was, certainly, much more complicated, and it is unlikely that there was only “one specific reason why bipedalism was selected for” (Harcourt-Smith 2007, p 1490). Although bipedalism is not often performed in the context of food carrying, it may perhaps remain a possible contributing factor to the evolution of habitual upright bipedalism. On the other hand, however, the authors do not consider how a novelty may maintain a surprising long-term effect, even if it is repeated innumerable times over many generations in order to establish a habitual bipedal posture and gait within the population. Over 63 shrew and primate taxa were included in a correlation of arboreality vs. terrestriality to body mass (Niemitz 2002, 2004). The considerations of Sylvester (2006) are focused on a theoretical model that asks what happened in the hominin body when bipedalism evolved. 5th ed, C.H.Beck, München, Schrenk F, Müller St (2005) Die Neandertaler. It was found in a place which today is located amidst Sahara desert and was then a green river valley (Brunet et al. 0000005703 00000 n
Click here to get an answer to your question Evolutionary significance of bipedalism and erect posture muhammadhaider2506 is waiting for your help. The adult female is standing bipedally in hip-deep water near the steep shore holding onto a dead branch. 2000) In the Late Miocene, the long-armed Oreopithecus bamboli may have developed a kind of terrestrial bipedalism in the absence of predators that was very different from the human one (Köhler and Moyà-Solà 1997a; Rook et al. An imperfect upright stance causes high energy consumption. The “Amphibische Generalistentheorie” (Niemitz 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007) or shore dweller hypothesis postulates that several advantages may have favoured a wading behaviour selectively: On the shores, there is plenty of high quality food, which could be collected with very little investment. J Hum Evol 13:91–98, Wheeler PE (1985) The loss of functional body hair in man: the influence of thermal environment, body form an bipedality. However, all terrestrial monkeys—as well as Proconsul without regard for its degree of terrestriality—have front and hind limbs of similar lengths. For some time, there must have been a trade-off, for longer bipedal wading hind extremities and relatively shorter ones for terrestrial quadrupedalism in combination with the possibility of a fast vertical escape up into the branches. Knee-deep water is fairly sufficient to reduce possible injuries during the transitional phase when “balance abilities... evolved” (cf. The authors continue: “Almost all anthropostenoxic (Homo-specific, CN) parasites, the presence of which is bound to water, originate from Africa–i.e. Sci Am 189:65–72, Ellis D (1991) Is an aquatic ape viable in terms of marine ecology and primate behaviour? For this reason, it would rather not have been more tree dwelling than P. nyanzae, but more probably, it was at least as terrestrial as this latter species, the members of which weigh only about half as much. CR Acad Sci, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 332:137–144, Sénut B, Nakatsukasa M, Kunimatsu Y, Nakano Y, Takano T, Tsujikawa H, Shimizu D, Kagaya M, Ishida H (2004) Preliminary analysis of Nacholapithecus scapula and clavicle from Nachola, Kenya. My sincere thanks are due to Tatiana Czeschlik, the Managing Editor of this journal. The functional anatomy of about 20-Ma-old Morotopithecus from Uganda indicates “features of modern ape locomotion, reflecting climbing and/or suspensory activity” (Nakatsukasa 2004, see also MacLatchy et al. To the author's conviction, only the semiterrestrial ancestors of the human lineage are older than indicated here (see text). I would like to thank Horst Aspöck (Vienna), Maciej Henneberg (Adelaide), and Friedemann Schrenk (Frankfurt) for their comments on an earlier stage of this manuscript. This was certainly so since the times when savannahs began to emerge as islets within a net of broad areas of green forests accompanying the water streams, with gallery forests along their shores. They are an extraordinary exception requiring extraordinary specialisations. This may be interpreted as an early adaptation to a partly arboreal life and particularly, to vertical climbing—upwards in order to climb fruiting trees or to reach nesting sites at night and downwards for all terrestrial purposes (e.g., Fleagle et al. The most important and recent ones are discussed here. 0000009011 00000 n
The belief that women might have carried their babies was discussed by Etkin (1954), who argued that an upright locomotion in a hunting society might have been more effective if the females stood up and walked bipedally carrying their offspring on their waists. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp 247–249, Patterson N, Richter DJ, Gnerre S, Lander ES, Reich D (2006) Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees. Erect bipedal infant transport seems to happen only when wading (Fig. On the other hand, the disturbing fact is that, it can definitely not be decided how often a bipedal display may have led to either an appeasement or to an open fight. Ergonomics 10:399–409, Washburn SL (1967) Behaviour and the origin of man. 0000005667 00000 n
Morphology, ecology and behaviour of nonhuman primates. Therefore, we want to propose to consider the problem from a decisively different viewpoint and to put it more precisely than above: Which environmental conditions offered new functional, and therefore, evolutionary advantages to our “transitional quadrupedal–bipedal ancestors”? W. Mannstaedt, Berlin, Wheeler PE (1984) The evolution of bipedality and loss of functional body hair in hominids. 0000048507 00000 n
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