exhaustive list of the forms of bipedalism, but most bipedal species use one or more of these techniques. Facultative bipedalism occurs in some species of antbears...
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quadruped 'four feet'. Limited and exclusive bipedalism can offer a species several advantages. Bipedalism raises the head; this allows a greater field...
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truly identify its locomotor behavior (i.e. whether it exhibited facultative bipedalism) and its phylogenetic position as a hominin in the evolution of...
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Nonetheless, it remains a matter of controversy as to how bipedalism first emerged. The advantages of bipedalism were that it left the hands free to grasp objects...
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Homo habilis, an advanced grasping-capable hand was accompanied by facultative bipedalism, possibly implying, assuming a co-opted evolutionary relationship...
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have occasionally walked on its hind legs as a facultative biped. Other possible adaptations to bipedalism in Euparkeria include rows of osteoderms that...
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zeugopodium, or lower leg. This would have enabled facultative bipedalism in Prorotodactylus, and a wholly bipedal gait in later dinosauromorphs. Pace angulation...
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danger or foraging), Protoceratops could have employed a rapid, facultative bipedalism. He also noted that the flat and wide pedal unguals of Protoceratops...
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However, Jerry J. Hooker argued that there is no evidence for facultative bipedalism in P. magnum unlike in the contemporary artiodactyl Anoplotherium...
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Protoceratops juveniles indicates that protoceratopsids were able to employ facultative bipedalism when young and became obligate quadrupeds in adulthood. However...
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