| 单词 | knuckle-walking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈknuckle-walking ˈknuckle-walking n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > monkey > gait or monkey defined by knuckle-walker1859 knuckle-walking1967 1967 R. H. Tuttle in Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 26 171 (title) Knuckle-walking and the evolution of Hominoid hands. 1967 R. H. Tuttle in Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 26 171/2 The knuckle-walking posture of chimpanzees and gorillas is unique among primates. 1967 S. L. Washburn in Proc. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 23/1 It appears that our ancestors were arboreal apes for many millions of years, that they then shared a common knuckle-walking stage with the ancestors of the chimpanzee and gorilla, and that only later they became bipeds. 1969 A. H. Schultz Life of Primates v. 56 In the orang-utan the mode of using the hands in walking..is more in the form of a clenched fist, rather awkwardly twisted sideways, and rarely like real knuckle-walking. 1972 O. J. Lewis in R. H. Tuttle Functional & Evolutionary Biol. Primates ix. 212 Thick palmar radiocarpal ligaments are not the exclusive property of knuckle-walkers... It thus seems that knuckle-walking requires no especially striking modifications of the wrist joint. < as lemmas |
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