Lucy lived long ago,
A distant figure in the show
Her muscles 3D scanned
Withstanding the test of time, the stand
A fossil now that taught us how she walked

#3d #lucy #fossil #bipedalism #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/3d-muscle-reconstruction-shows-3-2-million-year-old-lucy-walked-upright/

Does #bipedalism make us #Human? Why do we walk on two legs? A complex debate that rages on with #paleoanthropologists all the time. So what is it all about? Read on to find out more: https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2023/05/18/why-we-walk-on-two-legs/ #Walking #Running #Legs #Anthropology #Paleoanthropology

#Bipedalism
Did we evolve from a knuckle walking ape? Probably not.
What evidence we have so far points to something else.

Were We Wrong About The Last Common Ancestor?
featuring Prof. Jeremy DeSilva @desilva_jerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kakBfGxhpM

#Human #bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in #trees, and not on the ground as previously thought
#Anthropology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/ant12152201.html

#Human #bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in #trees, and not on the ground as previously thought
#Anthropology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/ant12152201.html

Exciting new research on the origins of #bipedalism in early #hominins around 7,000,000 yrs ago: Moving on 2 legs while foraging in treetops in an otherwise open habitat was essential to the devt'ment of bipedalism among ancestors of humans - contradicting the idea that it arose as an adaptation to spending more time on the ground.
And the original paper is at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sic adv.add9752
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/14/bipedalism-foraging-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bipedalism and Other Tales of Evolutionary Oddities

"From the nucleus of each cell to the architecture of our organs, the human body, too, bears the traces and wounds of a long and contrasting evolutionary history."

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/bipedalism-and-other-evolutionary-oddities/

#TheMITPressReader #Evolution #Bipedalism