Lufengpithecus inner ear provides evidence of a common locomotor repertoire ancestral to human bipedalism

Yinan Zhang; Xijun Ni; Qiang Li; Thomas Stidham; Dan Lu; Feng Gao; Chi Zhang; Terry Harrison

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Lufengpithecus inner ear provides evidence of a common locomotor repertoire ancestral to human bipedalism

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Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, Kunming 650118, China
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Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA

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Published Online: February 14, 2024

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