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Fossil hominid femora and the evolution of walking

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THE evolutionary origins of human bipedalisms are still poorly understood, but recent discoveries of fossil hominid femora in Africa reveal some interesting details. Especially important are several new fossils discovered by the expedition led by R. E. F. Leakey to East Rudolf, Kenya1–9. The purpose of this paper is to find the morphological and functional affinities among higher primates of these and other fossil femora in the hope of revealing more about the nature of early hominid locomotion.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, California, 95616

    HENRY M. MCHENRY

  2. Division of Physical Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560

    ROBERT S. CORRUCCINI

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MCHENRY, H., CORRUCCINI, R. Fossil hominid femora and the evolution of walking. Nature 259, 657–658 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259657a0

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