The first evidence of human relatives walking on two feet comes from about 70 footprints left by at least two Australopithecus afarensis walking across soft volcanic ash about 3.6 million years ago.

A study suggests how the human foot evolved to facilitate bipedalism. The adoption of bipedal locomotion was a critical step in human evolution. To understand the process by which early hominins ...

So who were the first bipedal apes and would you recognize them as relatives? Hominins and Panins Part Ways. ... Let’s focus on the oldest of the three and the top contender for earliest-known hominin ...

That study ruled out another early hominin, Australopithecus sediba, as an ancestor of the genus Homo, because the 800,000-year overlap between A. sediba and the earliest known Homo fossil was too ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

McNutt was fascinated by the bipedal (upright walking) footprints at Laetoli Site A. Laetoli is famous for its impressive trackway of hominin footprints at Sites G and S, which are generally ...

Citation: Pontzer, H. (2012) Overview of Hominin Evolution. Nature Education Knowledge 3( 10 ) :8 How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today?

A new study suggests that “Lucy,” perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, wasn’t able to run that fast. […] ...

Now the challenge -- one of the ultimate questions in the study of human origins -- is to understand why the earliest hominids stood up. "Bipedalism is a fundamental human characteristic," said Dr ...

Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modeled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis using scans of 'Lucy': the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s.