Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the late Miocene apes Hispanopithecus and Rudapithecus based on vestibular morphology

A Urciuoli, C Zanolli, S Almécija… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Late Miocene great apes are key to reconstructing the ancestral morphotype from which
earliest hominins evolved. Despite consensus that the late Miocene dryopith great apes …

Evolution of locomotion in Anthropoidea: the semicircular canal evidence

TM Ryan, MT Silcox, A Walker… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our understanding of locomotor evolution in anthropoid primates has been limited to those
taxa for which good postcranial fossil material and appropriate modern analogues are …

New insights on hip bone sexual dimorphism in adolescents and adults using deformation-based geometric morphometrics

C Fornai, NM Webb, A Urciuoli, VA Krenn… - Journal of …, 2021 - zora.uzh.ch
Morphological variation of the human pelvis, and particularly the hip bone, mainly results from
both female-specific selective pressure related to the give birth of large-headed newborns, …

Lufengpithecus inner ear provides evidence of a common locomotor repertoire ancestral to human bipedalism

Y Zhang, X Ni, Q Li, T Stidham, D Lu, F Gao, C Zhang… - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
Various lines of evidence have been used to infer the origin of human bipedalism, but the
paucity of hominoid postcranial fossils and the diversity of inferred locomotor modes have …

Orang-like manual adaptations in the fossil hominoid Hispanopithecus laietanus: first steps towards great ape suspensory behaviours

S Almécija, DM Alba… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Morphological and biometrical analyses of the partial hand IPS18800 of the fossil great ape
Hispanopithecus laietanus (=Dryopithecus laietanus), from the Late Miocene (about 9.5 Ma) …

Shape analysis of the StW 578 calotte from Jacovec Cavern, Gauteng (South Africa)

A Beaudet, J Dumoncel, JL Heaton… - South African Journal …, 2022 - scielo.org.za
The fossiliferous deposits within the lower-lying Jacovec Cavern in the locality of Sterkfontein
yielded valuable hominin remains, including the StW 578 specimen. Because StW 578 …

Morphology of the Bony Labyrinth Supports the Affinities of Paradolichopithecus with the Papionina

A Le Maître, F Guy, G Merceron… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Discoveries in recent decades indicate that the large papionin monkeys Paradolipopithecus
and Procynocephalus are key members of the Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene …