His claim that a creature with an ape-sized brain could have dental and postural characteristics approaching those of humans initially met with hostile skepticism because his theory entailed the principle of mosaic evolution, or the development of some characteristics in advance of others.
Species' postural characteristics, especially bipedality, are argued to be instrumental in the origin of handedness in mammals.
For simulated and actual work the FOG system accurately reported lumbar postural characteristics for each activity (mean position, mean angular velocity, standard deviation).
The purpose of this study was to validate a new fibre-optic goniometer (FOG) system designed to identify sedentary work activities and measure their lumbar postural characteristics.
To observe postural characteristics of female dressage riders, through application of three-dimensional motion analysis and to assess the effects of athletic taping on postural asymmetry during sitting trot.
The robust lateralization in bipedal marsupials stands in contrast to the relatively weak forelimb preferences in marsupial quadrupeds, emphasizing the role of postural characteristics in the evolution of manual lateralization as previously suggested for primates [8 10].
