Climbing as Easy as Walking for Small Primates

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 15:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Using a rope treadmill, researchers have revealed that tiny species use no more energy climbing vertically than they do walking on the ground, a find that bolsters theories about the earliest primates.

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