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Body mass estimates of hominin fossils and the evolution of human body size by Grabowski, Mark, Hatala, Kevin G., Jungers, William L., Richmond, Brian G.

“…Body size directly influences an animal's place in the natural world, including its energy requirements, home range size, relative brain size, locomotion,…”
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Variation in foot strike patterns during running among habitually barefoot populations by Hatala, Kevin G, Dingwall, Heather L, Wunderlich, Roshna E, Richmond, Brian G

“…Endurance running may have a long evolutionary history in the hominin clade but it was not until very recently that humans ran wearing shoes. Research on…”
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The evolution of body size and shape in the human career by Jungers, William L., Grabowski, Mark, Hatala, Kevin G., Richmond, Brian G.

“…Body size is a fundamental biological property of organisms, and documenting body size variation in hominin evolution is an important goal of…”
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Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania by McNutt, Ellison J., Hatala, Kevin G., Miller, Catherine, Adams, James, Casana, Jesse, Deane, Andrew S., Dominy, Nathaniel J., Fabian, Kallisti, Fannin, Luke D., Gaughan, Stephen, Gill, Simone V., Gurtu, Josephat, Gustafson, Ellie, Hill, Austin C., Johnson, Camille, Kallindo, Said, Kilham, Benjamin, Kilham, Phoebe, Kim, Elizabeth, Liutkus-Pierce, Cynthia, Maley, Blaine, Prabhat, Anjali, Reader, John, Rubin, Shirley, Thompson, Nathan E., Thornburg, Rebeca, Williams-Hatala, Erin Marie, Zimmer, Brian, Musiba, Charles M., DeSilva, Jeremy M.

“…Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of…”
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Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus by Hatala, Kevin G., Roach, Neil T., Ostrofsky, Kelly R., Wunderlich, Roshna E., Dingwall, Heather L., Villmoare, Brian A., Green, David J., Harris, John W. K., Braun, David R., Richmond, Brian G.

“…Bipedalism is a defining feature of the human lineage. Despite evidence that walking on two feet dates back 6–7 Ma, reconstructing hominin gait evolution is…”
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Interpreting locomotor biomechanics from the morphology of human footprints by Hatala, Kevin G., Wunderlich, Roshna E., Dingwall, Heather L., Richmond, Brian G.

“…Fossil hominin footprints offer unique direct windows to the locomotor behaviors of our ancestors. These data could allow a clearer understanding of the…”
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Sexual dimorphism in Homo erectus inferred from 1.5 Ma footprints near Ileret, Kenya by Villmoare, Brian, Hatala, Kevin G., Jungers, William

“…Sexual dimorphism can be one of the most important indicators of social behavior in fossil species, but the effects of time averaging, geographic variation,…”
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Laetoli footprints reveal bipedal gait biomechanics different from those of modern humans and chimpanzees by Hatala, Kevin G., Demes, Brigitte, Richmond, Brian G.

“…Bipedalism is a key adaptation that shaped human evolution, yet the timing and nature of its evolution remain unclear. Here we use new experimentally based…”
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The manual pressures of stone tool behaviors and their implications for the evolution of the human hand by Williams-Hatala, Erin Marie, Hatala, Kevin G., Gordon, McKenzie, Key, Alastair, Kasper, Margaret, Kivell, Tracy L.

“…It is widely agreed that biomechanical stresses imposed by stone tool behaviors influenced the evolution of the human hand. Though archaeological evidence…”
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Fossil footprints and what they mean for hominin paleobiology by Hatala, Kevin G., Roach, Neil T., Behrensmeyer, Anna K.

“…Hominin footprints have not traditionally played prominent roles in paleoanthropological studies, aside from the famous 3.66 Ma footprints discovered at…”
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Body mass estimates of the earliest possible hominins and implications for the last common ancestor by Grabowski, Mark, Hatala, Kevin G., Jungers, William L.

“…Many hypotheses regarding the paleobiology of the earliest possible hominins, Orrorin tugenensis and Ardipithecus ramidus, are dependent upon accurate body…”
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Pattern and process in hominin brain size evolution are scale-dependent by Du, Andrew, Zipkin, Andrew M., Hatala, Kevin G., Renner, Elizabeth, Baker, Jennifer L., Bianchi, Serena, Bernal, Kallista H., Wood, Bernard A.

“…A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding the patterns, rates and processes involved in hominin brain size…”
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A biplanar X-ray approach for studying the 3D dynamics of human track formation by Hatala, Kevin G., Perry, David A., Gatesy, Stephen M.

“…Recent discoveries have made hominin tracks an increasingly prevalent component of the human fossil record, and these data have the capacity to inform…”
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Kinetics of stone tool production among novice and expert tool makers by Williams‐Hatala, Erin Marie, Hatala, Kevin G., Key, Alastair, Dunmore, Christopher J., Kasper, Margaret, Gordon, McKenzie, Kivell, Tracy L.

“…Objectives As is the case among many complex motor tasks that require prolonged practice before achieving expertise, aspects of the biomechanics of knapping…”
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The morphological affinity of the Early Pleistocene footprints from Happisburgh, England, with other footprints of Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene age by Wiseman, Ashleigh L.A., Stringer, Chris B., Ashton, Nick, Bennett, Matthew R., Hatala, Kevin G., Duffy, Sarah, O'Brien, Thomas, De Groote, Isabelle

“…Fossil hominin footprints provide a direct source of evidence of locomotor behavior and allow inference of other biological data such as anthropometrics. Many…”
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Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups by Roach, Neil T., Hatala, Kevin G., Ostrofsky, Kelly R., Villmoare, Brian, Reeves, Jonathan S., Du, Andrew, Braun, David R., Harris, John W. K., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Richmond, Brian G.

“…Reconstructing hominin paleoecology is critical for understanding our ancestors’ diets, social organizations and interactions with other animals. Most…”
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Hominin stature, body mass, and walking speed estimates based on 1.5 million-year-old fossil footprints at Ileret, Kenya by Dingwall, Heather L., Hatala, Kevin G., Wunderlich, Roshna E., Richmond, Brian G.

“…The early Pleistocene marks a period of major transition in hominin body form, including increases in body mass and stature relative to earlier hominins…”
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Integration of biplanar X-ray, three-dimensional animation and particle simulation reveals details of human 'track ontogeny' by Hatala, Kevin G, Gatesy, Stephen M, Falkingham, Peter L

“…The emergence of bipedalism had profound effects on human evolutionary history, but the evolution of locomotor patterns within the hominin clade remains poorly…”
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Snapshots of human anatomy, locomotion, and behavior from Late Pleistocene footprints at Engare Sero, Tanzania by Hatala, Kevin G., Harcourt-Smith, William E. H., Gordon, Adam D., Zimmer, Brian W., Richmond, Brian G., Pobiner, Briana L., Green, David J., Metallo, Adam, Rossi, Vince, Liutkus-Pierce, Cynthia M.

“…Fossil hominin footprints preserve data on a remarkably short time scale compared to most other fossil evidence, offering snapshots of organisms in their…”
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Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins by Ruff, Christopher B., Wunderlich, Roshna E., Hatala, Kevin G., Tuttle, Russell H., Hilton, Charles E., D’Août, Kristiaan, Webb, David M., Hallgrímsson, Benedikt, Musiba, Charles, Baksh, Michael

“…Although many studies relating stature to foot length have been carried out, the relationship between foot size and body mass remains poorly understood. Here…”
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