Neil T. Roach

TL;DR: Experimental studies of humans throwing projectiles show that the authors' throwing capabilities largely result from several derived anatomical features that enable elastic energy storage and release at the shoulder, and conclude that selection for throwing as a means to hunt probably had an important role in the evolution of the genus Homo.

TL;DR: These footprints provide the oldest direct evidence for modern human-like weight transfer and confirm the presence of an energy-saving longitudinally arched foot in H. erectus.

TL;DR: In inverse dynamics analyses of kinematic data from 20 baseball players fitted with four different braces that inhibit specific motions, it is found that most of the work produced during throwing is generated at the hips, and much of this work is used to load elastic elements in the shoulder and power the rapid acceleration of the projectile.

TL;DR: This work proposes a model whereby genetic violations to regulatory constraint, tolerated during knee development, lead to adult pathology, and discovers a causal enhancer variant present in billions of people at a risk locus (GDF5-UQCC1), showing how it impacts mouse knee-shape and osteoarthritis.

TL;DR: Hominin footprints are disproportionately abundant in this lake margin environment, relative to hominin skeletal fossil frequency in the same deposits, which indicates repeated use of lakeshore habitats by Homo erectus.