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Comparative energetics of mammalian locomotion: humans are not different.

Halsey, L.G., White, C.R.·2012·Journal of Human Evolution
DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.07.008
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Debates about the evolution of human bipedality sometimes include discussion on the energy costs of terrestrial locomotion of extinct and extant hominins. However, comparative analyses of hominin transport costs conducted to date have been limited and potentially misinforming, in part because they fail to consider phylogenetic history. In the present study, we compare the measured costs of pedestrian locomotion in humans and the estimated costs for Australopithecus afarensis (an early bipedal hominin), to a database of locomotory costs for mammals. Using data for 81 species of mammal, we demonstrate significant phylogenetic signal in both log-transformed body mass (logMass) and log-transformed net cost of transport (logNCOT), but no phylogenetic signal in residuals of the relationship between logNCOT and logMass. We then used this relationship to generate a prediction line for NCOT based on body mass, and compared this prediction with published measured data for NCOT of running and walking in humans, and estimated NCOT of walking in A. afarensis. The cost of human walking was 25% lower than predicted, while the cost of running was 27% higher. The cost of A. afarensis walking was 32% lower than predicted. However, all of these data points fall within the 95% prediction interval for mammals, indicating that they are not significantly lower or higher than predicted for other mammals of similar mass. Moreover, the difference between humans and our closest living relative the comm…

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  • There is little evidence from metabolic data that humans, or an early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, experience(d) low energy expenditure during pedestrian locomotion in comparison to other mammals in general.

    “however, in fact, there is little evidence from metabolic data that humans, or an early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, experience(d) low energy expenditure during pedestrian locomotion in comparison to other mammals in general (Halsey and White, 2012; Rubenson et al., 2007).”

    From The energy costs of wading in water (2014) · cites this paper as Halsey and White, 2012

  • Low speeds and frequent changes in direction associated with foraging will likely serve to increase transport costs.

    “Low speeds and also frequent changes in direction associated with foraging will likely serve to increase transport costs (Halsey and White, 2012; Wilson et al., 2013).”

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Authors
Halsey, L. G., & White, C. R.
Venue
Journal of Human Evolution
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-11
Volume
63
Issue
5
Pages
718-722
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0047-2484
DOI
10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.07.008
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