Complex topography and human evolution: the missing link

• Autores: Isabelle C. Winder, Geoffrey C. P. King, Maud Devès, Geoff Bailey
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 87, Nº 336, 2013, págs. 333-349
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.