@article {308424,
	title = {The foot of Homo naledi.},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2015},
	note = {http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151006/ncomms9432/full/ncomms9432.html},
	month = {2015},
	pages = {8432},
	abstract = {<p>Modern humans are characterized by a highly specialized foot that reflects our obligate bipedalism. Our understanding of hominin foot evolution is, although, hindered by a paucity of well-associated remains. Here we describe the foot of Homo naledi from Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa, using 107 pedal elements, including one nearly-complete adult foot. The H. naledi foot is predominantly modern human-like in morphology and inferred function, with an adducted hallux, an elongated tarsus, and derived ankle and calcaneocuboid joints. In combination, these features indicate a foot well adapted for striding bipedalism. However, the H. naledi foot differs from modern humans in having more curved proximal pedal phalanges, and features suggestive of a reduced medial longitudinal arch. Within the context of primitive features found elsewhere in the skeleton, these findings suggest a unique locomotor repertoire for H. naledi, thus providing further evidence of locomotor diversity within both the hominin clade and the genus Homo.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Biological Evolution, Foot, Foot Bones, Fossils, Gorilla gorilla, Hominidae, Humans, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus},
	issn = {2041-1723},
	doi = {10.1038/ncomms9432},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26439101},
	author = {Harcourt-Smith, W E H and Throckmorton, Z and Congdon, K A and Zipfel, B and Deane, A S and Drapeau, M S M and Churchill, S E and Berger, L R and DeSilva, J M}
}
