Morphological and evolutionary insights into the keystone element of the human foot’s medial longitudinal arch

Morphological and evolutionary insights into the keystone element of the human foot’s medial longitudinal arch

Abstract The evolution of the medial longitudinal arch (MLA) is one of the most impactful adaptations in the hominin foot that emerged with bipedalism. When and how it evolved in the human lineage is still unresolved. Complicating the issue, clinical definitions of flatfoot in living Homo sapiens ha...

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Main Authors: Rita Sorrentino, Kristian J. Carlson, Caley M. Orr, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Carla Figus, Shuyuan Li, Michele Conconi, Nicola Sancisi, Claudio Belvedere, Mingjie Zhu, Luca Fiorenza, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Tea Jashashvili, Mario Novak, Biren A. Patel, Thomas C. Prang, Scott A. Williams, Jaap P. P. Saers, Jay T. Stock, Timothy Ryan, Mark Myerson, Alberto Leardini, Jeremy DeSilva, Damiano Marchi, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Stefano Benazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-10-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05431-8

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05431-8

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