A Review of Current Concepts on the Evolution of the Human Foot-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Review of Current Concepts on the Evolution of the Human Foot

Published:1982-03 Issue:5 Volume:2 Page:284-290
ISSN:0198-0211
Container-title:Foot & Ankle
language:en
Short-container-title:Foot & Ankle

Author:

Laitman Jeffery T.¹,Jaffe William L.²

Affiliation:

1. Assistant professor of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, New York. To whom requests for reprints should be addressed at; Depattment of Anatomy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy place;New York, NY 10029.

2. Associate Clinical professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Mediclne; Associate Derector of Orthopaedic Surgery and Attending Orthopaedist, The Orthopaedic Institute of the Hospital for Joint Disease, New York.

Abstract

This paper reviews a number of recent advances in understanding the evolution of the human foot. The foot has gradually changed from the grasping and clinging organ of early Eocene and Miocene and Miocene primate ancestors to the specialized weightbearing structure of modern. Recent studies have indicated that postcranial remains conmensurate with the requirements of bipedal locomotion may have been present as far back as 3½ million years ago in the forerunners of modern man known as the australopithecines. Subsequent modifications appear to be refinements to increase the efficiency of weight transmission in habitual bipedallsm.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107110078200200504

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