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Quadrupedalism is sometimes referred to as being "on all fours", and is observed in crawling, especially by infants. [1] In the 20th century quadrupedal movement was popularized as a form of physical exercise by Georges Hebert. [2] Kenichi Ito is a Japanese man famous for speed running on four limbs in competitions. [3]
The Family That Walks on All Fours is a BBC Two documentary that explored the science and the story of five individuals in the Ulas family, a Kurdish family in Southeastern Turkey that walk with a previously unreported quadruped gait. [1] [2] [3]
[2] [8] This form of hand-walking posture allows these tree-climbers to use their hands for terrestrial locomotion while retaining long fingers for gripping and climbing. It may also allow small objects to be carried in the fingers while walking on all fours. This is the most common type of movement for gorillas, although they also practice ...
Five members of one family walk on all fours, leading one scientist to say their condition signals backwards evolution. Other scientists have a different take.
People affected by UTS walk with a quadrupedal locomotion and often have severe learning disabilities. Tan postulated that this is an example of "reverse evolution" (atavism). [1] The proposed syndrome was featured in the 2006 BBC2 documentary The Family That Walks On All Fours.
Crawling or quadrupedal movement is a method of human locomotion that makes use of all four limbs. It is one of the earliest gaits learned by human infants, [1] and has similar features to four-limbed movement in other primates and in non-primate quadrupeds. [2]
All-fours. This is the static form of crawling which is a form of locomotion instinctive in very young children. It was a commonly used childbirth position in both ...
Five of the family members (except for another, who has died) walk on all fours with their feet and the palms of their hands in what is called a "bear crawl". [1] [2] Their quadrupedal gait has never been reported in anatomically intact adult humans. The gait is different from the knuckle-walking quadrupedal gait of apes.