Walking with hominins
Research by Dr Ashleigh L Wiseman
I am a palaeoanthropologist based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. My current role is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust for a project entitled “How to build a hominin: predictive simulations of locomotion in human evolution”
My research investigates hominin postcrania and how the skeleton moves, with a particular interest in evolutionary biomechanics. More specifically, my research aims focus on reconstructing the soft tissues of fossil hominins and investigating the locomotory capabilities of Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene hominins and extant Great Apes.
Throughout my Leverhulme-funded project, I will be building musculoskeletal models of hominins and determining how muscles facilitated certain types of movement to answer qustions regarding how they could have moved. Please reach out to me if you would like to collaborate. I am especially looking for additional fossil material to be included in my project.
Contact: alw96 [at] cam.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9575-4387
The Walking Hominins 