Primatology.net has a sister site, if you don’t know already, and that’s Anthropology.net. This evening I put up a post there that may interest any one keen to primate locomotion and/or human evolution. The post is specifically on orangutan locomotion, specifically on how some researchers have observed a set of Sumatran Orangutans exhibit bipedal tendencies.
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Entries Tagged as ‘Biophysics’
May 31, 2007
Quickie on Orangutan Bipedalism
April 18, 2007
On the biophysics of Sumatran orangutan swaying
In almost one year of blogging here, we haven’t yet covered how the study of biophysics intersects with primatology. (Update: I realized I kinda lied, I forgot about this post on gibbon gait. Oops.)
Biophysics, in a sense, is the study of the form and function of bodies, and is formally defined as the application of [...]
