{"id":677054,"date":"2020-12-29T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677054"},"modified":"2020-12-29T07:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:07:23","slug":"is-forearm-curvature-in-the-little-foot-australopithecus-natural-or-pathological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677054","title":{"rendered":"Is forearm curvature in the &#039;Little Foot&#039; Australopithecus natural or pathological?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 3.67-million-year-old StW 573 (&#8220;Little Foot&#8221;) Australopithecus from Sterkfontein, South Africa, is the most complete skeleton known in the hominin fossil record.\u00a0 It&#8217;s discoverers suggested that the significant curvature of its forearm is the result of a fall from a tree during childhood.\u00a0 They argued this early Australopithecus suffered acute plastic bowing of the forearm\u2014a deformity common in young children after suffering a traumatic fall onto an outstretched hand, as juvenile bones are more elastic than those of adults.\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-12-forearm-curvature-foot-australopithecus-natural.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Is forearm curvature in the &#8216;Little Foot&#8217; Australopithecus natural or pathological?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3.67-million-year-old StW 573 (&#8220;Little Foot&#8221;) Australopithecus from Sterkfontein, South Africa, is the most complete skeleton known in the hominin fossil record.\u00a0 It&#8217;s discoverers suggested that the significant curvature of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}