Hand before foot? Cortical somatotopy suggests manual dexterity is primitive and evolved independently of bipedalism
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Hand before foot? Cortical somatotopy suggests manual dexterity is primitive and evolved independently of bipedalism
People have long speculated whether the evolution of bipedalism in early hominins triggered tool use (by freeing their hands) or whether the necessity of making and using tools encouraged the shift to upright gait. Either way, it is commonly thought that one led to the other. In this study, we sought to shed new light on the origins of manual dexterity and bipedalism by mapping the neural repre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0417