User:Gissele Oro/Little Foot/Corginelious Peer Review

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 * Little Foot

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Characteristics[edit]

*This is a female, 1.20-1.30 metres tall, whose lower limbs are longer than her upper limbs. This is the first time such data have been obtained in the fossil record.

Her hips are modern and capable of transmitting great forces from her legs, and her hands were very large. Their body suggests a bipedal gait and, at the same time, they had a great ability to climb trees.

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* Maybe add some sources and sourced information to strengthen the subtopic.

What are other characteristics did "Little Foot" have? Why are they significant compared to other fossils?

* This is identified as a female who is 1.20-1.30 meters tall with lower limbs that are longer than her upper limbs.

Body

StW 573 (Little Foot) is considered to be a nearly complete case of an Australopithecus female specimen [try to keep a neutral tone] which is an astonishing find that provides plenty of information on this once obscure species that helps advance prospective on them. (5)  [In the discovery of the cast]A skull is included, where dental use is prominent and resemblance can be drawn to other cases found in South Africa, such as that of A. Anamensis.(6) [moved position of sentence] Although, it is also prominent that StW 573 displays many features that other apes present such as a S shaped curve in their collarbone and a ventral bar.(2)

Morphological characteristics of StW 573’s fossil are the complete limb lengths that conclude that StW 573 stood roughly to the height of 4 feet and that they exhibited forms of bipedalism due to the length of their legs.(2)  Other fragments of the cast such as the pectoral girdle and a high ridge of StW 573’s shoulder blades suggest that they had a strong upper body to support their weight while they hang from branches and climb trees. (2) Overall this cast indicates various examples found in what one might consider human and other primates as they exhibit concepts of walking upright and locomotion through the trees. (3)

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* StW 573 (Little Foot) is considered to be a nearly complete case of an Australopithecus female specimen that provides plenty of information on this once obscure species that helps advance prospective on them.

* In the discovery of the cast, there were evidence of dental use where it shows to be prominent. It resemblances can be drawn to other cases found in South Africa, such as that of A. Anamensis (you can add in the Wiki page to this, if you want).

* Elaborate more on the characteristics, if possible.

* I do like the amount of references that you have.

I also think this section in the article could use more elaboration.

References

Potential Bibliography LittleFoot Wiki Page


 * 1) Beaudet, Amélie, Edwin de Jager, Laurent Risser, Muriel Mescam, and Caroline Fonta. "Mapping the brain of fossil hominins: the EndoMap project." In 22nd Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO 2021). 2021.  Mapping the brain of fossil hominins: the EndoMap project
 * 2) Zhongming, Zhu, Lu Linong, Yao Xiaona, Zhang Wangqiang, and Liu Wei. "Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees." (2021) Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees
 * 3) Evidence that the individual walked upright
 * 4) Carlson, Kristian J., David J. Green, Tea Jashashvili, Travis R. Pickering, Jason L. Heaton, Amélie Beaudet, Dominic Stratford et al. "The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina." Journal of human evolution 158 (2021): 102983. .The pectoral girdle of StW 573 ('Little Foot') and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina
 * 5) Granger, Darryl E., and Derek Fabel. "Dating cave sediments with cosmogenic nuclides." In Encyclopedia of Caves, pp. 348-352. Academic Press, 2019.  Dating cave sediments with cosmogenic nuclides
 * 6) Controversial dating of the specimen
 * 7) Clarke, Ronald J., Travis Rayne Pickering, Jason L. Heaton, and Kathleen Kuman. "The Earliest South African Hominids." Annual Review of Anthropology 50 (2021): 125-143. The Earliest South African Hominids
 * 8) Clarke, Ronald J., and Kathleen Kuman. "The skull of StW 573, a 3.67 ma Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa." Journal of Human Evolution 134 (2019): 102634. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248418302380?via%3Dihub