Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The Pelvic Growth in Extant and Extinct Hominids: Implications for the Evolution of Body Proportions and Body Size in Humans
AU  - Berge C
Y1  - 1995
VL  - 33
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 47
EP  - 56
KW  - Os coxae
KW  - Ontogenetic allometry
KW  - Heterochrony
KW  - Australopithecus africanus
KW  - Homo sapiens
KW  - Pantroglodytes
KW  - Gorilla gorilla
N2  - 
N2  - A sample of 52 juvenile and adult hipbones of modern humans of various origins and one adult hipbone and a juvenile ilium of Australopithecus africanus (Stsl4, MLD 7) are biometrically compared with a sample of 107 juvenile and adult hipbones of African great apes. The results indicate that the pelvic growth pattern fully differentiates modern humans not only from the great apes, but also from the first hominids, who retained an ape-like pelvic growth. Heterochronic processes on the hominid post-cranium lead to a modification of body proportions (longer hindlimbs and narrower trunk) and height, which increases with delayed maturity and the growth spurt at the end of the adolescent period.
ER  -