New research further validates that bipedalism (walking upright on two feet) evolved in concert with unique features of the human skull. The latest paper on the anthropologic significance of two ...

Habitual bipedalism is considered as a major breakthrough in human evolution and is the defining feature of hominins. Upright posture is presumably less stable than quadrupedal posture, but when ...

The 2.8 million-year-old Australopithecus africanus "Taung child" skull was discovered in South Africa in 1925. Source: Wikimedia/Creative Commons New research further validates that bipedalism ...

Walking upright at the dawn of the human lineage ... Features of the skull suggest it may have been able to walk upright, but no bones from elsewhere in the skeleton have been found yet.

Walking upright on two legs is the trait that defines the hominid lineage: Bipedalism separated the first hominids from the rest of the four-legged apes. ... Known only from a skull and teeth, ...

On the bottom of your skull, ... Rak suggested in a 2010 study, the position of the skull opening may have more to do with the posture of the trunk than walking upright.

But while the fossil femur appears to have supported the demands of habitual upright walking, Sahelanthropus’s chimp-like forearms show that it still spent plenty of time in the trees.

New 3D scans of a six-million-year-old Lufengpithecus' skull fossil clarify a potential evolutionary step towards bipedal locomotion. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 29, 2024 11:32 AM EST Get the ...

269430: Dusk falls on East Africa's Turkana Basin 4 million years ago, where our early upright-walking ape ancestors, Australopithecus anamensis (foreground), shared their habitat with several ...