New methodological approaches and insights gained toward understanding the evolved human skeleton.

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Modern humans exhibit marked musculoskeletal changes when compared to those of our African ape relatives, such as chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. These changes reflect adaptive shifts during hominin evolution in spine, pelvis, knee, and foot morphology toward obligate bipedalism, shoulder, elbow, and hand morphology for propulsive throwing and precision object manipulation, and brain size expansion and...

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