An international collaboration study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone ...

In fact, over 85% of the occurrences of bipedalism that were observed took place when the apes were in the trees. "Our study suggests that the retreat of forests in the late Miocene-Pliocene era ...

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In this video segment adapted from NOVA, see how paleoanthropologists—including Don Johanson, with his famous discovery of the Australopithecus afarensis "Lucy"—have used the fossil record to identify ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred ...

Humans might have evolved our two-footed posture for its fighting advantage; we punch harder standing than on all fours, and downward punches are much more forceful than upward ones. This could also ...

A male western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo. The origin of human bipedalism has long been a hot topic among paleoanthropologists. At the very least it is seen as something ...

Few attributes of being human have attracted more intense thought than the simple fact that, unlike all other living mammals, we walk upright on two legs. Human bipedalism represents a major ...

Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star stuff.” For modern humans, this may be true in a very unexpected way. Research published Tuesday in The Journal of Geology suggests that stars are what ...

No other animal moves the way we do. That’s awfully strange. Even among other two-legged species, none amble about with a straight back and a gait that, technically, is just a form of controlled ...