Curvature of the Lumbar Spine as a Consequence of Mechanical Necessities in Japanese Macaques Trained for Bipedalism
作者:
H. Preuschoft,
S. Hayama,
M.M. Günther,
期刊:
Folia Primatologica
(Karger Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 50,
issue 1-2
页码: 42-58
ISSN:0015-5713
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1159/000156333
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Biomechanics;Vertebral column;Lordosis;Mechanical stress in the trunk;Adaptive change of morphology;Bipedal locomotion;Trunk posture;Remodeling of bone;Intervertebral disks
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
If trained to walk bipedally at a juvenile age and over periods of some months or years, Japanese monkeys gradually acquire a pronounced lordosis of the lumbar spine. This lordosis persists even in the ‘normal’, pronograde posture of these animals. It is due to a relative increase of the ventral lengths of the vertebral bodies. This morphological change is clearly an adaptation to the mechanical necessities of the upright body posture. Our result is in complete accordance with the development of a lordosis in human children between 1 and 5 years, as described recently by oth
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