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Re: News on inner ear and upright walking
Herb Huston (huston@access1.digex.net)
3 Jul 1994 10:41:25 -0400
In article <2uq38k$1q6@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
Pete Vincent <VINCENT@TRIUMF.CA> wrote:
}In <2uf9ev$okf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> cfitzger@s.psych.uiuc.edu writes:
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}` The claim has been made that the inner ear arrangment which
}` affects balance shows Homo erectus to be the first habitually
}` upright walker. Is there more information available on this,
}` and what are the implications?
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}Yes, I was going to raise this but you've beat me. I heard this on the
}radio this weekend: a Dr. Wood(s?) from the UK [...]
Bernard Wood, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Liverpool. The
report by Wood and his colleagues appears in the June 23 issue of _Nature_,
which, unfortunately, has not yet appeared at my library, preventing me
from posting a more complete reference.
-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.net
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