Experimental Studies on Primate Locomotion

灵长类运动的实验研究

• 批准号: 9507078
• 负责人: Susan Larson
• 金额: $ 30.03万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9507078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Studies; Primate; Locomotion

The study of the origin and evolution of humans necessarily includes as subject matter our nearest relatives, the non human primates. Understanding how living primates use their bodies (muscles and bones) to move about in different ways provides the proper context for the reconstruction of ancient lifestyles of our ancestors. We need to understand the relationship between body form and function, and know different structures work, or what it is for, if we are to be able to interpret fossil finds correctly. This project concerns the application of certain experimental methods to such analyses of anatomical form and function in living non human primates, using bone strain analysis, telemetered electromyography, and the analysis of kinematics and kinetics through triplanr videotaping and the use of an electronic pressure measurement system. These are all extremely sophisticated ways of monitoring muscle activity and bone stress and strain of animals perform different sets of movements - walking, arm swinging, knuckle walking, and so on. The information obtained will be used to help interpret the adaptive significance of features distinguishing living monkeys, apes and humans, and to apply that understanding to the interpretation of the fossil evidence for human and primate evolution.

人类起源和进化的研究必然包括我们最近的亲戚，非人类的灵长类动物。 了解现存的灵长类动物如何使用它们的身体（肌肉和骨骼）以不同的方式移动，为重建我们祖先的古代生活方式提供了适当的背景。 我们需要了解身体形态和功能之间的关系，并了解不同的结构工作，或者它是为了什么，如果我们能够正确地解释化石发现。 该项目涉及应用某些实验方法对活体非人类灵长类动物的解剖形态和功能进行分析，包括使用骨应变分析、遥测肌电图、通过三平面录像和使用电子压力测量系统进行运动学和动力学分析。 这些都是非常复杂的方法来监测肌肉活动和骨骼应力和动物执行不同的运动-步行，摆动手臂，关节步行等的应变。所获得的信息将用于帮助解释区分活猴，猿和人类的特征的适应意义，并将这种理解应用于解释人类和灵长类进化的化石证据。