How did human bipedalism evolve towards greater energy efficiency? By analyzing the occasional bipedal walking of baboons, ...

Studying fossils of Australopithecus afarensis can provide insight into the evolution of bipedalism, or walking upright, and when it emerged in early human ancestors. Wiseman’s reconstructions ...

So why become bipedal? This question is actually more difficult than it sounds. The upright posture is said to have enabled long-distance running and greater flexibility in locomotion. A quadruped ...

These investigations provided intriguing insights into the origins of the upright, bipedal stance—walking on two legs—seen in modern humans. The question of how the bipedal stance evolved from ...

“Bipedalism is a defining feature of the human ... towards an “arboreal hypothesis,” where humans evolved to walk upright as a way of better foraging for food in the trees.

Human bipedalism -- walking upright on two legs -- may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study. Human bipedalism -- walking upright on two legs ...

“Our oldest known representatives were practicing bipedalism (on the ground and on the trees),” said study author Franck Guy, a research fellow at Université de Poitiers in France. The ...

The long-held belief for why we walk upright today – also known as bipedalism – is that our ancestors were forced to come down from trees and spend more time on land. This is because millions ...

Many questions remain about the evolution of bipedalism. We still do not know why upright walking was selectively advantageous for our earliest ancestors and extinct relatives. Hypotheses abound.

And, as such, scientists are incredibly invested in understanding how and why our ancient ancestors acquired their strange, upright strut. Among anthropologists, the traditional theory holds that the ...

Human bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. In the study ...