Imagine this puny little hominid venturing out of the forest ... then why is there a disconnect between the earliest evidence for bipedalism and the first stone tools? Evidence for bipedalism ...

CHAMPAIGN, lll. – 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 ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of bipedalism ... of the Ulna in Modern Hominid Primates and Fossil ...

This species of ancient hominid was living and walking around ... Previously, paleoanthropologists disagreed on Lucy’s bipedal stance. Some thought she likely waddled around with her back ...

“Bipedalism is a defining feature of the human lineage and is the first thing to separate our fossil ancestors from other apes. Understanding why it evolved is thus key to understanding what ...

His research focuses on the evolution of bipedalism. He is author of First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (HarperCollins, 2021).

As NPR's Jessica Yung reports, the evidence points to a complex evolutionary history of bipedalism ... This is not the first time human ancestor species with different walking patterns have ...