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Brian G. Richmond
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 105
Citations - 6574
Brian G. Richmond is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Australopithecus & Homo erectus. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 104 publications receiving 5976 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian G. Richmond include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign & National Museum of Natural History.
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Origin of human bipedalism: The knuckle-walking hypothesis revisited.
TL;DR: The functional significance of characteristics of the shoulder and arm, elbow, wrist, and hand shared by African apes and humans, including their fossil relatives, most strongly supports theknuckle-walking hypothesis, which reconstructs the ancestor as being adapted to knuckle- walking and arboreal climbing.
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Human evolution: taxonomy and paleobiology
Bernard Wood,Brian G. Richmond +1 more
TL;DR: This review begins by setting out the context and the scope of human evolution, and sets out the formal nomenclature, history of discovery, and information about the characteristic morphology, and its behavioural implications, of the species presently included in the human clade.
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Modeling elastic properties in finite‐element analysis: How much precision is needed to produce an accurate model?
David S. Strait,Qian Wang,Paul C. Dechow,Callum F. Ross,Brian G. Richmond,Mark A. Spencer,Biren A. Patel +6 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that finite-element analyses can be adversely affected when elastic properties are modeled imprecisely, and that modelers should attempt to obtain elastic properties data about the species and skeletal elements that are the subjects of their analyses.
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Evidence that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestor
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that fossils attributed to Australopithecus anamensis and A. afarensis retain specialized wrist morphology associated with knuckle-walking, which removes key morphological evidence for a Pan–Gorilla clade and suggests that bipedal hominids evolved from a knuckles-walking ancestor that was already partly terrestrial.
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Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya
David R. Braun,John W.K. Harris,Naomi E. Levin,Jack T. McCoy,Andy I.R. Herries,Marion K. Bamford,Laura C. Bishop,Brian G. Richmond,Brian G. Richmond,M. Kibunjia +9 more
TL;DR: The evidence here shows that these critical brain-growth compounds were part of the diets of hominins before the appearance of Homo ergaster/erectus and could have played an important role in the evolution of larger brains in the early history of the authors' lineage.