Postural Control in Man: The Phylogenetic Perspective

Erect posture in man is a recent affordance from an evolutionary perspective. About eight million years ago, the stock from which modern humans derived split off from the ape family, and from around sixty-thousand years ago, modern man developed. Upright gait and manipulations while standing pose in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albert Gramsbergen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2005-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/NP.2005.77