It's all in the toes....

Brian Switek is a well-known science blogger & twitterer who writes on all matters evolutionary, and has recently posted a nice review of BANDIT Biren Patel's recent paper in AJPA: Speed effects on forelimb kinematics in cercopithecine monkeys and implications for digitigrade postures in primates

BANDIT members in June AJPA

Southern Illinois University PhD candidate Matt Nowak, Kris Carlson of Indiana University and the University of Witwatersrand (and Australopithecus sediba fame!), and Biren Patel of Stony Brook University have published Apparent Density of the Primate Calcaneo-Cuboid Joint and Its Association with Locomotor Mode, Foot Posture, and the "Midtarsal Break" , a neat analysis of mechanical joint loading in the foot in a range of quadrupedal and arboreal primates, as well as humans. Also, there are some very cool figures in this paper - Figure 1 is a super drawing of the feet of three different primates, all in lateral view. I can see this figure being used in a ton of class lectures. Nice!