Showing posts with label bipedality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bipedality. Show all posts
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Evolution of the Human Foot

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Nature News has an interesting examination of how the human foot evolved the arch, the singular most important aspect in the ability to per...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Upright Ape?

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Multiple outlets are reporting on the discovery of a fossil ape that appears to have at least a partially facultatively bipedal stance.  Her...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

More Evidence For Bipedality at 4.5 MYA

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Out of Case Western Reserve comes a study of some new fossil material that sheds like on early human bipedal adaptation.  From ScienceDaily ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New Laetoli Footprints Demonstrate Full Bipedality

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A story running in Newsweek and the Washington Post (and other outlets, presumably), details research into the newly discovered fossil foot...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

3.3 Million Year Old Vertebral Column Confirms Human Pattern of Au. afarensis

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The science site PhysOrg has posted a story on a study of the 3.3 million year old fossil from the site of Dikika, in the Afar Triangle.  Th...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Science Daily: "Anthropologists Confirm Link Between Cranial Anatomy and Two-Legged Walking"

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This sort of fits under the category of "gee, who knew" but it is nice to finally have confirmation of something that has been tac...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Did Competition Put Us On Our Feet?

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Simply, yes. That is not earth-shattering. Cambridge News has a story on work done with chimpanzees that seems to confirm that behavioral ...
Monday, August 08, 2011

The Role of Savannahs in Human Evolution

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It now appears that grassland savannahs stretched further than originally thought during the critical time when human precursors became bipe...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

BioLogos Post

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The third BioLogos post, on the origins of bipedality and Ardipithecus , is up . Darrel actually changed the title a bit from “Bipedality—t...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Ardipithecus Meets Modern Technology

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The question of whether or how well Ardipithecus could walk has been hot since the discovery and description of the find were announced las...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

New 3.6 Million Year Old A. afarensis Remains

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Science Daily reports that Yohannes Haile-Selassie's team in Ethiopia have found the remains of a 3.6 million year old Australopithecus...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Not Out of the Trees?

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The Independent has a story about research indicating that our earliest human precursors might not have been as arboreal as originally thou...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Bipedalism and Tool Use: Connected?

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It has been generally thought that the evolution of bipedality, which we now suspect took place in a forested environment sometime between 4...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Casey Luskin and Ardipithecus

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Much to my chagrin, I missed this a few weeks back, when Casey Luskin put up an article on the new Ardipithecus remains. Hyperbollically t...
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