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Bipedality and hair loss in human evolution revisited: The impact of altitude and activity scheduling.
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Bipedality evolved early in hominin evolution, and at some point was associated with hair loss over most of the body. One classic explanation (Wheeler 1984: J. Hum. Evol. 13, 91-98) was that these traits evolved to reduce heat overload when australopiths were foraging in more open tropical habitats where they were exposed to the direct effects of sunlight at midday. A recent critique of this model (Ruxton and Wilkinson 2011a: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 20965-20969) argued that it ignored...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.02.006
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+ European Research Council
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Dunbar, R
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Advanced Investigator (295663
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Advanced Investigator grant to RD under grant number 295663
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Human Evolution Journal website
- Volume:
- 94
- Pages:
- 72-82
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-02-21
- DOI:
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1095-8606
- ISSN:
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0047-2484
- Source identifiers:
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618373
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- English
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pubs:618373
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uuid:6d2f2969-1492-46f2-8dc9-a05a7f2c9141
- Local pid:
- pubs:618373
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Dávid-Barrett and Dunbar
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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