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Exercise-induced endocannabinoid signaling is modulated by intensityDavid A Raichlen
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Eur J Appl Physiol 113:869-75. 2013..Thus, future studies examining the role of exercise-induced eCB signaling on neurobiology or physiology must take exercise intensity into account...
Linking brains and brawn: exercise and the evolution of human neurobiologyDavid A Raichlen
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Proc Biol Sci 280:20122250. 2013..This hypothesis suggests that a significant portion of human neurobiology evolved due to selection acting on features unrelated to cognitive performance...- Wired to run: exercise-induced endocannabinoid signaling in humans and cursorial mammals with implications for the 'runner's high'David A Raichlen
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Exp Biol 215:1331-6. 2012.... - Relationship between exercise capacity and brain size in mammalsDavid A Raichlen
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e20601. 2011..It is possible that exercise and neurobiology are related across evolutionary time. To test this hypothesis, this study examines the association between exercise and brain size across a wide range of mammals... - Calcaneus length determines running economy: implications for endurance running performance in modern humans and NeandertalsDavid A Raichlen
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Hum Evol 60:299-308. 2011..We hypothesize that ER performance may have been reduced in Neandertals because they lived in cold climates... - Laetoli footprints preserve earliest direct evidence of human-like bipedal biomechanicsDavid A Raichlen
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e9769. 2010..Determining the kinematics of Laetoli hominins will allow us to understand whether selection acted to decrease energy costs of bipedalism by 3.6 Ma... - Causes and significance of variation in mammalian basal metabolismDavid A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Comp Physiol B 180:301-11. 2010..These results suggest that selection alters BMR in response to thermoregulatory pressures, and that selection uses muscle mass as a means to generate this variation... - Understanding hind limb weight support in chimpanzees with implications for the evolution of primate locomotionDavid A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 138:395-402. 2009..The latter hypothesis raises the intriguing possibility that primate weight support patterns actually evolved as byproducts of other traits, or spandrels, rather than as adaptations to increase forelimb mobility... - The effects of gravity on human walking: a new test of the dynamic similarity hypothesis using a predictive modelDavid A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Exp Biol 211:2767-72. 2008..Thus, the DSH does account for differences in the inertial forces governing locomotion (e.g. differences in hip height) as well as differences in the gravitational forces governing locomotion... 
The Laetoli footprints and early hominin locomotor kinematicsDavid A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Hum Evol 54:112-7. 2008..Despite the many attempts to discern limb-joint kinematics from Laetoli stride lengths, our study concludes that stride lengths alone do not resolve the debate over early hominin locomotor postures...- Control and function of arm swing in human walking and runningHerman Pontzer
Department of Anthropology, Washington University, 119 McMillan Hall, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Exp Biol 212:523-34. 2009.... - The metabolic cost of walking in humans, chimpanzees, and early homininsHerman Pontzer
Washington University, Department of Anthropology, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Hum Evol 56:43-54. 2009..This supports the hypothesis that locomotor energy economy was an important evolutionary pressure on hominin bipedalism... - Ontogeny of limb mass distribution in infant baboons (Papio cynocephalus)David A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 49:452-67. 2005..These results suggest that functional demands placed on the limbs during ontogeny have a strong impact on the development of limb mass distribution patterns... - Effects of limb mass distribution on mechanical power outputs during quadrupedalismDavid A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Exp Biol 209:633-44. 2006.... - Lateral sequence walking in infant Papio cynocephalus: implications for the evolution of diagonal sequence walking in primatesLiza J Shapiro
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 126:205-13. 2005..Further insight into this issue will likely be gained by observations of primate quadrupedalism in natural environments, where the use of lateral sequence gaits might be more common than currently known... - Chimpanzee locomotor energetics and the origin of human bipedalismMichael D Sockol
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:12265-9. 2007..Analyses of these features in early fossil hominins, coupled with analyses of bipedal walking in chimpanzees, indicate that bipedalism in early, ape-like hominins could indeed have been less costly than quadrupedal knucklewalking... - Hunter-gatherer energetics and human obesityHerman Pontzer
Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York, New York, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e40503. 2012..We hypothesize that human daily energy expenditure may be an evolved physiological trait largely independent of cultural differences... - Effects of limb mass distribution on the ontogeny of quadrupedalism in infant baboons (Papio cynocephalus) and implications for the evolution of primate quadrupedalismDavid A Raichlen
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 49:415-31. 2005..These results suggest that the evolution of primate quadrupedal kinematics was tied to the evolution of grasping hands and feet... - The human gluteus maximus and its role in runningDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Exp Biol 209:2143-55. 2006.... - Metabolic adaptation for low energy throughput in orangutansHerman Pontzer
Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:14048-52. 2010.... - The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: a reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007)Daniel E Lieberman
J Hum Evol 53:439-42. 2007