Endurance running and the evolution of Homo

By D. Bramble, D. Lieberman. Nature, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Social Psychology

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The age of exploration and exploitation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability (2014, background): “Regarding exploration, our ability to engage in endurance running (ER) is a significant occurrence in the evolution of humans (Bramble & Lieberman, 2004; Carrier, 1984).”
What are Fundamental Motor Skills and What is Fundamental About Them? (2020, background): “Furthermore, the evolution of running and with it the enhanced speed of transport provided multiple adaptive consequences for the evolving homo species (Bramble & Lieberman, 2004; Carrier, 1984).”
Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners (2010, methodology): “Meff can be calculated, using experimental data from equation (1), as”
The human colonisation of Europe: where are we? (2006, background): “…consisted of (compared to the australopithecines) large-brained (700–1050 cc) hominins with a large body size and modern limb proportions, and equipped with a good locomotor system (cf. Aiello and Wells, 2002) that made them capable of sustained endurance running (Bramble and Lieberman, 2004).”
Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “Interference and resource competition probably accounted for most of the interactions among the earliest humans, vultures, bone-cracking hyenids, and other vertebrate scavengers (Bunn and Ezzo 1993, Owen-Smith 1999, Bickerton and Szathmáry 2011, Bramble and Lieberman 2011).”
Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Endurance Running Capabilities (2009, background): “These capabilities, which have been reviewed in depth by Carrier (1984) and Bramble and Lieberman (2004), compare extremely well to other mammals, especially primates, in terms of several performance criteria such as speed and distance, especially in hot conditions.”
Integrative biology of exercise. (2014, positive): “Hypotheses generated over the last two decades from comparative physiologists (Hochachka et al., 1999) and anthropologists (Bramble and Lieberman, 2004) suggest that the combined traits of superior endurance capacity and an impressive ability to thermoreg-ulate permitted ancestral humans from the…”
Bovid mortality profiles in paleoecological context falsify hypotheses of endurance running–hunting and passive scavenging by early Pleistocene hominins (2010, background): “More particularly, the hypothesis asserts ER was the specific mode of a general type of predation—persistence hunting (PH)—in which ungulate prey is pursued over a long distance until it fails physiologically and can then be easily dispatched by the hunter (s) (Bramble and Lieberman, 2004).”
The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals during the non-analogue environment of Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (2005, background): “A recent paper on the running adaptations of hominins has suggested that the elongated stature of Homo, as well as other anatomical features, are related to running long distances (Bramble and Lieberman, 2004).”
Computer optimization of a minimal biped model discovers walking and running (2006, background): “…( d ) has constant-length pendulum phases and ﬂight phases separated by impulses. tic and dissipative elements in series with the actuator [4; 6; 7; 24], the possibility of higher-period gaits (for example skipping [29]), an extended foot instead of a point foot [27], and other anatomical realism…”
Prey mortality profiles indicate that Early Pleistocene Homo at Olduvai was an ambush predator (2014, positive): “The abundance of prime adults at FLK Zinj also effectively falsifies the hypothesis of hunting by endurance running as proposed by Bramble and Lieberman (2004), and of scavenging from natural, non-predator-related dead animals, provided that we understand fully the mortality profiles most likely to ”