| Title: |
An international research network on bipedalism |
| Authors: |
Berillon, Gilles; Duveau, Jérémy; Cosnefroy, Quentin; Aerts, Peter; Agostini, Valentina; Beaudet, Amélie; Betti, Lia; Blasi-Toccacceli, Alicia; Boursin, Paul; Brůžek., Jaroslav; Callou, Cécile; Cazenave, Marine; Chapman, Tara; Chevalier, Tony; Courtenay, Lloyd; Couture-Veschambre, Christine; d'Aout, Kristian; Daver, Guillaume; Druelle, François; Fischer, Barbara; Fremondiere, Pierre; Ghislieri, Marco; Grimaud-Herve, Dominique; Gunstra, Nicole, D. S.; Guy, Franck; Haeusler, Martin; Herrel, Anthony; Lamberton, Franck; Lequin, Mathilde; Lockwood, Victoria, A; Martin, Chloé; Mitteroecker, Philipp; Multon, Franck; Nowicki, Zoé; Pallas, Laurent; Perrier, Antoine; Perrot, Amira; Poltze, Victoria; Rmoutilova, Rebeka; Rosenberg, Karen, R.; Stansfield, Ekaterina; Tessier, Pierre; Tholon, Lionel; Torres‐tamayo, Nicole; Tournan, Benjamin; Watier, Bruno; Watson, Laura, M.; Webb, Nicole, M; Wiseman, Ashleigh, L.; Marchal, François |
| Contributors: |
Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP); Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = University of Tübingen; De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA); Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé (ADES); Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Établissement Français du Sang Alpes-Méditerranée (EFS Alpes-Méditerranée); Établissement Français du Sang La Plaine Saint-Denis (EFS)-Établissement Français du Sang La Plaine Saint-Denis (EFS); Laboratoire de paléontologie, évolution, paléoécosystèmes, paléoprimatologie UMR 7262 (Palevoprim Poitiers ); Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Department of Archaeology University of Cambridge, UK; University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK (CAM); School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies Johannesburg (GAES); University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg (WITS); Bases de données sur la Biodiversité, Ecologie, Environnement et Sociétés (BBEES); Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); BioArchéologie, Interactions Sociétés Environnements (BioArch); Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD); Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution (MECADEV); The International Research Network IRN-GDRI0870 Bipedal equilibrium is funded by the CNRS Ecology & Environment (France); European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE); Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) |
| Source: |
15th annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution meeting (ESHE 2025); https://hal.science/hal-05291470; 15th annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution meeting (ESHE 2025), Sep 2025, Paris, France. Paleoanthropology, 2025 (2), pp.435-436, 2025, ⟨10.48738/2025.iss2.4032⟩ |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Université de Poitiers: Publications de nos chercheurs.ses (HAL) |
| Subject Terms: |
[SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; [PHYS.MECA.BIOM]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Biomechanics [physics.med-ph]; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology |
| Subject Geographic: |
Paris; France |
| Description: |
International audience ; Among primates, hominins represent the sole clade in which bipedalism is the main positional mode of posture and locomotion. Bipedalism is thus widely recognized as a key trait facilitating their adaptive success. Identifying and reconstructing the posture and the dynamics of bipedalism from skeletal material, however, remains an enduring challenge in paleoanthropological research, one that has significantly shaped the discourse of our field for decades. Major palaeoanthropological discoveries and anatomo-functional progress in recent decades have added valuable information to the knowledge of the evolution of bipedal locomotion. Particularly, this research challenges the notion of a linear locomotor evolution from the earliest to the latest hominins. Instead, it is likely that different forms of bipedal locomotion were used by distinct hominins, sometimes contemporaneously. Previous works have also underlined difficulties in studying the locomotion of fossil specimens, obstacles attributed mainly to fragmentary, scarce and heterogeneous remains as well as evolutionary mosaicism. Locomotor interpretations of fossil remains are further hampered by disputed views on the functional outcomes of characteristic postcranial hominin traits, while form-function relationships are notoriously difficult to test, especially in the absence of any comparable extant primate analogs. Here, we introduce and present the International Research Network (IRN) “Bipedal Equilibrium” piloted by the CNRS Ecologie & Environnement. Since its inception in 2017, this network has approached the study of bipedalism from the largest perspective possible, bringing together researchers working in palaeoanthropology, primatology, functional anatomy, biomechanics, ichnology, computer science and epistemology. The project is divided into 3 thematic axes and 3 transversal workshops covering different themes and objectives relating to bipedalism. The first axis focuses on the functional relationships between anatomical ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object; still image |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.48738/2025.iss2.4032 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-05291470; https://hal.science/hal-05291470v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-05291470v1/file/Berillon%20et%20al.,%202025%20An%20International%20Research%20Network%20on%20bipedalism.pdf; https://doi.org/10.48738/2025.iss2.4032 |
| Rights: |
https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.710CC891 |
| Database: |
BASE |