Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 10:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists - going back to Charles Darwin - hypothesized, but in a wooded landscape.