Open AccessSpondylolysis and spinal adaptations for bipedalism
Author(s) -
Kimberly A. Plomp,
Keith Dobney,
Mark Collard
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
evolution medicine and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2050-6201
DOI - 10.1093/emph/eoaa003
Subject(s) - spondylolysis , bipedalism , homo sapiens , anatomy , lumbar vertebrae , medicine , spondylolisthesis , biology , lumbar , sociology , anthropology
The study reported here focused on the aetiology of spondylolysis, a vertebral pathology usually caused by a fatigue fracture. The goal was to test the Overshoot Hypothesis, which proposes that people develop spondylolysis because their vertebral shape is at the highly derived end of the range of variation within Homo sapiens .
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