How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Manuscripts seeking to explain the evolutionary roots of human bipedalism land in my in-box at Nature with monotonous regularity. We became bipeds so that we could carry food, or tools; so we could ...

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This process involved the gradual development of traits such as human bipedalism and language, as well as interbreeding with other hominins, which indicate that human evolution was not linear but a ...

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.

Additionally, bipedalism raised hominids' bodies above ... postulates that several human traits, from relatively minimal body hair to the ability to sweat moisture and salt, can be explained ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright, but a chimpanzee's skeleton (left) isn't These features serve as useful identifiers in the ...

Now, a paper published in the American Journal of Primatology provides new insights into how and when bipedal locomotion appeared during human evolution. Professor Josep M. Potau, from the Human ...

Lower back pain, or lumbago, became the inevitable bane of humans the moment they opted for “erect bipedalism”—standing erect and walking on two legs. Six million years have elapsed already ...