Hip extensor mechanics and the evolution of walking and climbing capabilities in humans, apes, and fossil hominins

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Edited by Carol V. Ward, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, and accepted by Editorial Board Member C. O. Lovejoy March 1, 2018 (received for review September 10, 2017)

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^aGraduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016;
^bNew York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY 10024;
^cDepartment of Anthropology, Lehman College, New York, NY 10468;
^dDivision of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024;
^eSchool of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721;
^fInstitute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L7 8TX, United Kingdom;
^gDepartment of Biology, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium;
^hLester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL 60614;
ⁱDepartment of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York, NY 10065;
^jDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Edited by Carol V. Ward, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, and accepted by Editorial Board Member C. O. Lovejoy March 1, 2018 (received for review September 10, 2017)

↵¹To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: ekozma{at}gradcenter.cuny.edu or hpontzer{at}hunter.cuny.edu.

Author contributions: E.E.K. and H.P. designed research; E.E.K., N.M.W., W.E.H.H.-S., D.A.R., K.D., M.H.B., E.M.F., S.R.R., P.A., and H.P. performed research; E.E.K., N.M.W., W.E.H.H.-S., D.A.R., K.D., E.M.F., P.A., and H.P. analyzed data; and E.E.K. and H.P. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. C.V.W. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1715120115/-/DCSupplemental.