Bendy feet are chimp-like relics made for climbing

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2919, 2013, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Jeremy DeSilva and Simone Gill at Boston University asked 400 adults to walk barefoot around the Boston Museum of Science while they filmed their feet. This revealed that 8% of people have some mid-foot flexibility, rather like that seen in tree-dwelling apes. In another, soon-to-be-published analysis, Robin Huw Crompton at thze University of Liverpool, UK, found that a flexible mid-foot may be even more common than DeSilva and Gill suggest. Crompton thinks flexible feet may have been with humans since the dawn of their species, as a relic of their tree-dwelling days. Other features were lost along the way.