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References from Environmental Context of Hominin Foot Evolution. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
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1990 · External reference
Elliptical Fourier Analysis of Hominoid Radius Shape: Implications for Ardipithecus ramidus
10.1242/bio.061938 · 2025 · External reference
The Belohdelie Frontal: New Evidence of Early Hominid Cranial Morphology From the Afar of Ethiopia
10.1016/0047-2484(87)90016-9 · 1987 · External reference
Fossil Leaves From Lukeino, a 6‐Million‐Year‐Old Formation in the Baringo Basin, Kenya
10.1016/j.geobios.2013.02.001 · 2013 · External reference
Adaptation Reviewed: A Phylogenetic Methodology for Studying Character Macroevolution
10.2307/2992218 · 1991 · External reference
10.1007/978-94-007-5919-0_4
10.1007/978-94-007-5919-0_4 · 2013 · External reference
The Savannah Hypotheses: Origin, Reception and Impact on Paleoanthropology
2012 · External reference
Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo‐Like Australopith From South Africa
10.1126/science.1184944 · 2010 · External reference
Direct Estimation of Mutations in Great Apes Reconciles Phylogenetic Dating
10.1038/s41559-018-0778-x · 2019 · External reference
Aridity and Hominin Environments
10.1073/pnas.1700597114 · 2017 · External reference
Lake‐Level Changes and Hominin Occupations in the Arid Turkana Basin During Volcanic Closure of the Omo River Outflows to the Indian Ocean
10.1017/qua.2018.118 · 2019 · External reference
Evidence for a Cooler and Drier Climate in the Ethiopian Uplands Towards 2.5 Myr Ago
10.1038/303487a0 · 1983 · External reference
A Large Homo Erectus Talus From Koobi Fora, Kenya (KNM‐ER 5428), and Pleistocene Hominin Talar Evolution
2015 · External reference
Endurance Running and the Evolution of Homo
10.1038/nature03052 · 2004 · External reference
Early Homo erectus Skeleton From West Lake Turkana, Kenya
10.1038/316788a0 · 1985 · External reference
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2002 · External reference
Fossil Soils, Grasses, and Carbon Isotopes From Fort Ternan, Kenya: Grassland or Woodland?
10.1016/0047-2484(91)90110-h · 1991 · External reference
An Isotopic Study of a Fluvial‐Lacustrine Sequence: The Plio‐Pleistocene Koobi Fora Sequence, East Africa
10.1016/0031-0182(88)90104-6 · 1988 · External reference
On the Environment of Aramis: A Comment on White in Domínguez‐Rodrigo
10.1086/677210 · 2014 · External reference
Comment on the Paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus Ramidus
10.1126/science.1185274 · 2010 · External reference
Woody Cover and Hominin Environments in the Past 6 Million Years
10.1038/nature10306 · 2011 · External reference
Interspecific and Ontogenetic Variation in Proximal Pedal Phalangeal Curvature of Great Apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Pongo pygmaeus )
10.1007/s10764-012-9590-7 · 2012 · External reference
High‐Resolution Isotopic Record of C4 Photosynthesis in a Miocene Grassland
10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.035 · 2012 · External reference
Australopithecus Africanus: The Man‐Ape of South Africa
10.1038/115195a0 · 1925 · External reference
The Predatory Implemental Technique of Australopithecus
10.1002/ajpa.1330070103 · 1949 · External reference
Postcranial Evidence of Late Miocene Hominin Bipedalism in Chad
10.1038/s41586-022-04901-z · 2022 · External reference
Functional Affinities of the Olduvai Hominid 8 Talus
10.2307/2798879 · 1968 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2011 · External reference
African Climate Change and Faunal Evolution During the Pliocene–Pleistocene
10.1016/s0012-821x(04)00003-2 · 2004 · External reference
One Small Step: A Review of Plio‐Pleistocene Hominin Foot Evolution
10.1002/ajpa.23750 · 2019 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2008 · External reference
Functional Morphology of the Ankle and the Likelihood of Climbing in Early Hominins
10.1073/pnas.0900270106 · 2009 · External reference
Environmental History of the South‐Eastern South Atlantic Since the Middle Miocene: Evidence From the Sedimentological Records of ODP Sites 1088 and 1092
10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00562.x · 2003 · External reference
First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34‐Million‐Year‐Old Paranthropus boisei From Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
10.1371/journal.pone.0080347 · 2013 · External reference
Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating With Confidence
10.1371/journal.pbio.0040088 · 2006 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1995 · External reference
The Transverse Tarsal Joint and Its Control
1960 · External reference
Rethinking the Ecological Drivers of Hominin Evolution
10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.011 · 2021 · External reference
Stratigraphic Context of Fossil Hominids From the Omo Group Deposits: Northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia
10.1002/ajpa.1330780412 · 1989 · External reference
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Revised Stratigraphy of Area 123, Koobi Fora, Kenya, and New Age Estimates of Its Fossil Mammals, Including Hominins
10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.05.005 · 2006 · External reference
Plantigrady and Foot Adaptation in African Apes: Implications for Hominid Origins
10.1002/ajpa.1330890105 · 1992 · External reference
Climbing, Brachiation, and Terrestrial Quadrupedalism: Historical Precursors of Hominid Bipedalism
10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199609)101:1<55::aid-ajpa5>3.0.co;2-c · 1996 · External reference
Foot Bones From Omo: Implications for Hominid Evolution
10.1002/ajpa.20320 · 2006 · External reference
Cosmogenic Nuclide Burial Dating of Hominin‐Bearing Pleistocene Cave Deposits at Swartkrans, South Africa
10.1016/j.quageo.2014.07.004 · 2014 · External reference
Limb‐Size Proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus
10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.09.001 · 2007 · External reference
New Hominid Fossils From the Swartkrans Formation (1979–1986 Excavations): Craniodental Specimens
10.1002/ajpa.1330790402 · 1989 · External reference
The Taxonomic Attribution of African Hominin Postcrania From the Miocene Through the Pleistocene: Associations and Assumptions
10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103255 · 2022 · External reference
Evolutionary Reversals of Limb Proportions in Early Hominids? Evidence From KNM‐ER 3735 (Homo Habilis)
10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.06.001 · 2007 · External reference
Photos May Offer Clues Over Ethiopian Fossil Site
10.1038/35084284 · 2001 · External reference
Fossils, Feet and the Evolution of Human Bipedal Locomotion
10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00296.x · 2004 · External reference
10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_17
10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_17 · 2007 · External reference
Footprint Evidence for Locomotor Diversity and Shared Habitats Among Early Pleistocene Hominins
10.1126/science.ado5275 · 2024 · External reference
The Fossilized Birth–Death Process for Coherent Calibration of Divergence‐Time Estimates
2014 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2013 · External reference
RevBayes: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference Using Graphical Models and an Interactive Model‐Specification Language
10.1093/sysbio/syw021 · 2016 · External reference
New Fossils From Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the Pan‐African Origin of Homo sapiens
10.1038/nature22336 · 2017 · External reference
Dental Morphology and the Phylogenetic “Place” of Australopithecus sediba
10.1126/science.1233062 · 2013 · External reference
New Partial Skeleton of Homo habilis From Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
10.1038/327205a0 · 1987 · External reference
Hunterian Lectures on Man's Posture: Its Evolution and Disorders: Given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England
10.1136/bmj.1.3249.587 · 1923 · External reference
‘Lucy’ Redux: A Review of Research on Australopithecus afarensis
10.1002/ajpa.21183 · 2009 · External reference
The First Skull and Other New Discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia
10.1038/368449a0 · 1994 · External reference
Australopithecus sediba and the Emergence of Homo: Questionable Evidence From the Cranium of the Juvenile Holotype MH 1
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.011 · 2017 · External reference
Isotopic Evidence for Neogene Hominid Paleoenvironments in the Kenya Rift Valley
10.1126/science.264.5161.955 · 1994 · External reference
When Does Morphology Matter?
10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.27.1.501 · 1996 · External reference
Hip Extensor Mechanics and the Evolution of Walking and Climbing Capabilities in Humans, Apes, and Fossil Hominins
10.1073/pnas.1715120115 · 2018 · External reference
The First Paranthropus From the Malawi Rift
10.1006/jhev.1999.0308 · 1999 · External reference
A New Absolute Date From Swartkrans Cave for the Oldest Occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan Stone Tools in South Africa
10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103000 · 2021 · External reference
Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography When the Number of Areas Is Large
10.1093/sysbio/syt040 · 2013 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1996 · External reference
The Calcaneus of Australopithecus afarensis and Its Implications for the Evolution of Bipedality
10.1002/ajpa.1330780306 · 1989 · External reference
Hallucal Tarsometatarsal Joint in Australopithecus afarensis
10.1002/ajpa.1330820202 · 1990 · External reference
Metatarsophalangeal Joints of Australopithecus afarensis
10.1002/ajpa.1330830103 · 1990 · External reference
Talocrural Joint in African Hominoids: Implications for Australopithecus afarensis
10.1002/ajpa.1330740204 · 1987 · External reference
Functional Morphology and Systematics: Studying Functional Patterns in an Historical Context
10.1146/annurev.es.21.110190.001533 · 1990 · External reference
A New Species of the Genus Homo From Olduvai Gorge
10.1038/202007a0 · 1964 · External reference
Further Hominids From the Plio‐Pleistocene of Koobi Fora, Kenya
10.1002/ajpa.1330670209 · 1985 · External reference
Paleosol Carbonates From the Omo Group: Isotopic Records of Local and Regional Environmental Change in East Africa
10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.026 · 2011 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2008 · External reference
The Joints of the Evolving Foot. Part I. The Ankle Joint
1980 · External reference
Adaptation and Functional Integration in Primate Phylogenetics
10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.11.013 · 2007 · External reference
Combining Prehension and Propulsion: The Foot of Ardipithecus ramidus
10.1126/science.1175832 · 2009 · External reference
Careful Climbing in the Miocene: The Forelimbs of Ardipithecus ramidus and Humans Are Primitive
10.1126/science.1175827 · 2009 · External reference
Movements of the Subtalar and Transverse Tarsal Joints
10.1002/ar.1090800402 · 1941 · External reference
A Lineage Perspective on Hominin Taxonomy and Evolution
10.1002/evan.22018 · 2024 · External reference
Probabilistic Historical Biogeography: New Models for Founder‐Event Speciation, Imperfect Detection, and Fossils Allow Improved Accuracy and Model‐Testing
10.21425/f55419694 · 2013 · External reference
Sporadic Sampling, Not Climatic Forcing, Drives Observed Early Hominin Diversity
10.1073/pnas.1721538115 · 2018 · External reference
Palaeomagnetism and the Age of the Makapansgat Hominid Site
10.1016/0012-821x(79)90076-1 · 1979 · External reference
Body Proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and A. Africanus and the Origin of the genusHomo
10.1006/jhev.1997.0197 · 1998 · External reference
The Evolution of the Human Foot
10.1002/evan.21713 · 2018 · External reference
Knuckle‐Walking in Sahelanthropus? Locomotor Inferences From the Ulnae of Fossil Hominins and Other Hominoids
10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103355 · 2023 · External reference
Our Past Creates Our Present: A Brief Overview of Racism and Colonialism in Western Paleontology
10.1017/pab.2021.28 · 2022 · External reference
New Fossils Reveal the Hand of Paranthropus boisei
10.1038/s41586-025-09594-8 · 2025 · External reference
Expanded Character Sampling Underscores Phylogenetic Stability of Ardipithecus ramidus as a Basal Hominin
10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.006 · 2019 · External reference
An Updated Analysis of Hominin Phylogeny With an Emphasis on Re‐Evaluating the Phylogenetic Relationships of Australopithecus sediba
10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103311 · 2023 · External reference
Variation in the Molecular Clock of Primates
10.1073/pnas.1600374113 · 2016 · External reference
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1935 · External reference
Micro‐Finite Element (μFE) Modeling of the Siamang ( Symphalangus syndactylus ) Third Proximal Phalanx: The Functional Role of Curvature and the Flexor Sheath Ridge
10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.008 · 2014 · External reference
Phytoliths Indicate Significant Arboreal Cover at Sahelanthropus Type Locality TM266 in Northern Chad and a Decrease in Later Sites
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.01.009 · 2017 · External reference
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2000 · External reference
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2015 · External reference
Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo
10.1126/science.1203697 · 2011 · External reference
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2020 · External reference
U‐Pb‐Dated Flowstones Restrict South African Early Hominin Record to Dry Climate Phases
10.1038/s41586-018-0711-0 · 2019 · External reference
Fossil Land Snails of East Africa and Their Palaeoecological Significance
10.1016/0899-5362(95)94397-r · 1995 · External reference
10.1007/0-387-29798-7_14
10.1007/0-387-29798-7_14 · 2006 · External reference
The Geological and Faunal Context of Late Miocene Hominid Remains From Lukeino, Kenya
2001 · External reference
Economy and Endurance in Human Evolution
10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.031 · 2017 · External reference
Locomotor Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins
10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.03.006 · 2010 · External reference
Evolution and Climate Variability
10.1126/science.273.5277.922 · 1996 · External reference
Variability Selection in Hominid Evolution
10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)7:3<81::aid-evan3>3.0.co;2-a · 1998 · External reference
Small Mid‐Pleistocene Hominin Associated With East African Acheulean Technology
10.1126/science.1097661 · 2004 · External reference
Homoplasy in the Evolution of Modern Human‐Like Joint Proportions in Australopithecus afarensis
10.7554/elife.65897 · 2021 · External reference
Calcaneal Robusticity in Plio‐Pleistocene Hominins: Implications for Locomotor Diversity and Phylogeny
10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.09.001 · 2015 · External reference
Conarticular Congruence of the Hominoid Subtalar Joint Complex With Implications for Joint Function in Plio‐Pleistocene Hominins
10.1002/ajpa.22982 · 2016 · External reference
Reevaluating the Functional Implications of Australopithecus afarensis Navicular Morphology
10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.05.008 · 2016 · External reference
The Subtalar Joint Complex of Australopithecus sediba
10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.10.009 · 2016 · External reference
The African Ape‐Like Foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and Its Implications for the Origin of Bipedalism
10.7554/elife.44433 · 2019 · External reference
New Analyses of the Ardipithecus ramidus Foot Provide Additional Evidence of Its African Ape–Like Affinities: A Reply to
10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103135 · 2022 · External reference
The Relative Size of the Calcaneal Tuber Reflects Heel Strike Plantigrady in African Apes and Humans
10.1002/ajpa.24865 · 2024 · External reference
Ardipithecus Hand Provides Evidence That Humans and Chimpanzees Evolved From an Ancestor With Suspensory Adaptations
10.1126/sciadv.abf2474 · 2021 · External reference
Ardipithecus ramidus Ankle Provides Evidence for African Ape‐Like Vertical Climbing in the Earliest Hominins
10.1038/s42003-025-08711-7 · 2025 · External reference
Paleogeographic Variations of Pedogenic Carbonate Delta13C Values From Koobi Fora, Kenya: Implications for Floral Compositions of Plio‐Pleistocene Hominin Environments
10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.01.013 · 2007 · External reference
Colonial History and Global Economics Distort Our Understanding of Deep‐Time Biodiversity
10.1038/s41559-021-01608-8 · 2022 · External reference
Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7
10.1093/sysbio/syy032 · 2018 · External reference
The Makapansgat Australopithecine Environment
10.1006/jhev.1993.1016 · 1993 · External reference
Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis
10.1080/10635150701883881 · 2008 · External reference
Miocene Paleosols and Habitats of Proconsul on Rusinga Island, Kenya
10.1006/jhev.1995.1047 · 1995 · External reference
Paleosols and Paleoenvironments of the Middle Miocene, Maboko Formation, Kenya
10.1006/jhev.2002.0553 · 2002 · External reference
Biomechanics of Phalangeal Curvature
10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.05.011 · 2007 · External reference
Origin of Human Bipedalism: The Knuckle‐Walking Hypothesis Revisited
10.1002/ajpa.10019 · 2001 · External reference
Orrorin Tugenensis Femoral Morphology and the Evolution of Hominin Bipedalism
10.1126/science.1154197 · 2008 · External reference
Walking, Running and the Evolution of Short Toes in Humans
10.1242/jeb.019885 · 2009 · External reference
Dispersal‐Vicariance Analysis: A New Approach to the Quantification of Historical Biogeography
10.1093/sysbio/46.1.195 · 1997 · External reference
Relative Limb Strength and Locomotion in Homo Habilis
10.1002/ajpa.20907 · 2009 · External reference
A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of Early Hominin Foot Morphology
10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103682 · 2025 · External reference
Estimating Ancestral Ranges and Biogeographical Processes in Early Hominins
10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103547 · 2024 · External reference
Early Pliocene Hominids From Gona, Ethiopia
10.1038/nature03177 · 2005 · External reference
First Hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)
2001 · External reference
Palaeoenvironments and the Origin of Hominid Bipedalism
10.1080/08912963.2017.1286337 · 2018 · External reference
Early Hominid Habitat Preferences in East Africa: Paleosol Carbon Isotopic Evidence
10.1006/jhev.1994.1034 · 1994 · External reference
Early Pleistocene Habitat in Member 1 Olorgesailie Based on Paleosol Stable Isotopes
10.1006/jhev.1999.0343 · 1999 · External reference
Ardipithecus ramidus Postcrania From the Gona Project Area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.005 · 2019 · External reference
Sampling‐Through‐Time in Birth–Death Trees
10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.010 · 2010 · External reference
An Ecological Theory for the Origin of Homo
10.1017/s0094837300010836 · 1992 · External reference
Climbing to the Top: A Personal Memoir of Australopithecus afarensis
10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:3<113::aid-evan2>3.0.co;2-w · 2000 · External reference
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2013 · External reference
Ecological Implications of the Relative Rarity of Fossil Hominins at Laetoli
10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.07.003 · 2008 · External reference
New First Metatarsal (SKX 5017) From Swartkrans and the Gait of Paranthropus robustus
10.1002/ajpa.1330770103 · 1988 · External reference
New Hominin First Metatarsal (SK 1813) From Swartkrans
10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.06.005 · 2004 · External reference
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1977 · External reference
The Arboreal Origins of Human Bipedalism
10.1017/s0003598x00050778 · 2014 · External reference
Evolution of Hominid Bipedalism and Prehensile Capabilities
10.1098/rstb.1981.0016 · 1981 · External reference
Geology and Palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros‐Menalla Hominid Locality, Chad
10.1038/nature00880 · 2002 · External reference
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1985 · External reference
10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_47
10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_47 · 2007 · External reference
2.5‐Myr Australopithecus boisei From West of Lake Turkana, Kenya
10.1038/322517a0 · 1986 · External reference
Interpreting the Posture and Locomotion of Australopithecus afarensis: Where Do we Stand?
10.1002/ajpa.10185 · 2002 · External reference
Associated Ilium and Femur From Koobi Fora, Kenya, and Postcranial Diversity in Early Homo
10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.01.005 · 2015 · External reference
Taxonomic Attribution of the KNM‐ER 1500 Partial Skeleton From the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya
10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103426 · 2023 · External reference
Behaviour and the Origin of Man
10.2307/3031724 · 1967 · External reference
Evolution of the Human Foot
10.1002/ajpa.1330060102 · 1923 · External reference
Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids
10.1126/science.1175802 · 2009 · External reference
Response to Comment on the Paleobiology and Classification of Ardipithecus ramidus
2010 · External reference
Earliest Evidence of Hominin Bipedalism in Sahelanthropus Tchadensis
10.1126/sciadv.adv0130 · 2026 · External reference
Geology and Palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash Valley, Afar Rift, Ethiopia
10.1038/35084058 · 2001 · External reference
Evidence on the Locomotor Pattern of Homo From Early Pleistocene of Kenya
10.1038/251135a0 · 1974 · External reference
Hominin Taxic Diversity: Fact or Fantasy?
10.1002/ajpa.22902 · 2016 · External reference
The Human Genus
10.1126/science.284.5411.65 · 1999 · External reference
Paranthropus boisei: Fifty Years of Evidence and Analysis
10.1002/ajpa.20732 · 2007 · External reference
Towards a More Realistic Interpretation of the Human Fossil Record
10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107722 · 2022 · External reference
Paleosols, Stable Carbon Isotopes, and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of Kanapoi, Northern Kenya
10.1006/jhev.2000.0431 · 2000 · External reference
Influence of Plio‐Pleistocene Aridification on Human Evolution: Evidence From Paleosols of the Turkana Basin, Kenya
10.1002/ajpa.10317 · 2004 · External reference
Orbital Influence on Precipitation, Fire, and Grass Community Composition From 1.87 to 1.38 Ma in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
10.3389/feart.2021.568646 · 2021 · External reference
The Foot and Ankle of Australopithecus sediba
10.1126/science.1202703 · 2011 · External reference
Virtual Cranial Reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis
10.1038/nature03397 · 2005 · External reference
