Un plantigrade est un mammifère qui marche sur la plante de ses pieds. Exemples : le blaireau, le lapin, l'ours, l'opossum, les primates, la souris. La marche plantigrade implique la sollicitation ...

Walking on our heels, a feature that separates great apes, including humans, from other primates, confers advantages in fighting, according to a new University of Utah study published today in Biology ...

A heel-down posture -- a feature that separates great apes, including humans, from other primates -- confers advantages in fighting, according to a new study published today in the journal Biology ...

A diagram of an experimental setup to test how a plantigrade (heel-down) stance affects the amount of force a person is able to apply to a pendulum. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

According to recently published results, 95% of children with previously untreated clubfeet that underwent the Ponseti method achieved a plantigrade foot and this outcome was maintained by most ...