Did walking on 2 feet begin with a shuffle?
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 13:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Somewhere in the murky past, between four and seven million years ago, a hungry common ancestor of today`s primates, including humans, did something novel. While temporarily standing on its rear feet to reach a piece of fruit, this protohominid spotted another juicy morsel in a nearby shrub and began shuffling toward it instead of dropping on all fours, crawling to the shrub and standing again.
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