Quadrupedal Locomotor Characteristics of Uner Tan Syndrome Cases, Healthy Humans, and Nonhuman Primates in Evolutionary Perspectives
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Introduction: Uner Tan syndrome (UTS) consists of quadrupedal locomotion (QL), impaired intelligence, and dysarthric or no speech. Previously, I described the walk of cases with UTS as diagonal sequence (DS) because of ipsilateral limb interference, which is mostly observed in nonhuman primates with DS QL. The only gait analysis previously performed for UTS was of a few cases from only one family. They exhibited lateral sequence (LS) QL. The current work presents a gait analysis of UTS in more cases from more families, to obtain a representative sample. Methods: Hip and knee angles during quadrupedal standing were measured in UTS cases, healthy controls with requested QL, and nonhuman primates. Limb phases were assessed from video footages, as the percent of the hind limb’s stride durations. Results: UTS cases and nonhuman primates exhibited quadrupedal standing with straight legs nearly perpendicular to the ground. Healthy individuals could not walk quadrupedally like the UTS cases, but could perform QL only with flexed legs. UTS cases and healthy individuals with free (flexed-leg) QL used predominantly lateral sequence-diagonal couplet (LSDC) walks. Terrestrial primates preferred DS gaits. The healthy individuals with free QL were similar to arboreal primates in quadrupedal posture. Conclusions: Healthy individuals could not imitate the QL of the UTS cases, so a comparison of the UTS cases with healthy individuals is not justified. Although these results do not seem to support the thesis of locomotor evolution in reverse, nobody knows with certainty who our ancestors were or how they walked, and so the possibility of UTS as an example for the ancestral reappearance of QL in human beings cannot be positively excluded. This locomotor evolution in reverse was supported by experimental evidence that proved reverse evolution occurs as a scientific fact. WebmedCentral > Research articles Page 2 of 16 WMC005032 Downloaded from http://www.webmedcentral.com on 12-Dec-2015, 09:42:03 AM
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