Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 04103, Germany; Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY 10024, USA; Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, 0084 Pretoria, South Africa. Electronic address: marine.cazenave4@gmail.com.
• ² South Bank Applied BioEngineering Research (SABER), School of Engineering, Division of Mechanical Engineering and Design, London South Bank University, SE1 0AA London, UK; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c/ Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain.
• ³ Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY 10024, USA; New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) at AMNH, New York, NY 10024, USA.
• ⁴ Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Department of Geoscience, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2S2, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Paleontology and Mineralogy, National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG-1000, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ⁷ Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY 10024, USA; New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) at AMNH, New York, NY 10024, USA; Richard Gilder Graduate School (RGGS) at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
• ⁸ Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199, F-33600 Pessac, France; Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁹ 14 ter route de Château-Chinon, 71400 Tavernay, France.
• ¹⁰ Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹¹ Paléocharente, Musée d'Angoulême, 1 rue Friedland, 16000 Angoulême, France.
• ¹² Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology and Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.