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  • 3 - Pelves of the Hominin Lineage

  • Cara M. Wall-Scheffler, Seattle Pacific University, Helen K. Kurki, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Benjamin M. Auerbach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Book:
    The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis
    Published online:
    30 December 2019
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 46-98

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the fossil record of hominoid and hominin pelvic remains from the Miocene through to the Late Pleistocene. The interpretation of functional demands shaping hominin pelvic morphology including locomotion, obstetrics and thermoregulation are discussed, as well as evidence for pelvic sexual dimorphism in hominin species. The long-standing view of a relatively linear pattern of hominin pelvic evolution from Australopiths, through early Homo, to Neanderthals, broken only by the appearance of the somewhat divergent morphology of Homo sapiens is examined in light of recent fossil pelvis discoveries that point to greater diversity in the hominin pelvic morphology. These fossils add to evidence from elsewhere in the postcranium that indicate there were multiple ways to be a bipedal hominin.