quadruped 'four feet'. Limited and exclusive bipedalism can offer a species several advantages. Bipedalism raises the head; this allows a greater field...
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facultatively bipedal species employ different types of bipedalism corresponding to the varying reasons they have for engaging in facultative bipedalism. In primates...
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Homininae (section Evolution of bipedalism)
arboreal type of bipedalism. The evolution of bipedalism encouraged multiple changes among hominins especially when it came to bipedalism in humans as they...
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less costly than both quadrupedal and bipedal walking in chimpanzees. Some hypotheses have supported that bipedalism increased the energetic efficiency of...
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Orrorin (section Evolution of bipedalism)
studies Orrorin tugenensis is a basal hominid that adapted an early form of bipedalism. Based on the structure of its femoral head it still exhibited some arboreal...
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Human evolution (section Bipedalism)
There are several theories of the adaptation value of bipedalism. It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed the hands for reaching and...
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Geosciences, Roberto Macchiarelli, who considered it to be inconsistent with bipedalism contra what Brunet et al. had earlier stated in their description analysing...
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Nonetheless, it remains a matter of controversy as to how bipedalism first emerged. The advantages of bipedalism were that it left the hands free to grasp objects...
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Aquatic ape hypothesis (section Wading and bipedalism)
characteristics of modern humans such as functional hairlessness and bipedalism. The popular science writer Elaine Morgan supported this hypothesis in...
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that it is not directly caused by a physiological change to bipedalism may suggest bipedalism was not, at least, the sole cause of concealed ovulation in...
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spectrum-binocular vision (i.e. having two eyes), or biomechanic plantigrade-bipedalism (i.e. the ability to walk on heels and metatarsals in an upright position)...
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she inhabited a forest type of environment, contrary to the theory that bipedalism originated in savannahs. Ardi was not the first fossil of A. ramidus to...
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Modern humans have morphologically evolved to survive as bipeds, however, bipedalism has resulted in skeletal changes that have consequently narrowed the pelvis...
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savannah hypothesis (or savanna hypothesis) is a hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved as a direct result of human ancestors' transition from an arboreal...
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March 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024. Dhingra P (2004). "Comparative Bipedalism – How the Rest of the Animal Kingdom Walks on two legs". Anthropological...
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have traits similar to that of human beings including upright stance, bipedalism, opposable thumbs, facial features, etc. Annihilus is number 94 Archived...
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large penises as well as large breasts. Furthermore, early humans adopted bipedalism and face-to-face coitus. He therefore suggested enlarged sexual signals...
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evidence of hominin bipedalism at that time. Subsequently, older Ardipithecus ramidus fossils were found with features that suggest bipedalism. With the footprints...
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three limbs. Real-world tripedalism is rare, in contrast to the common bipedalism of two-legged animals and quadrupedalism of four-legged animals. The code...
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earliest hominids indicates that bipedalism evolved from an ancestor already adapted for terrestrial locomotion. ... Pre-bipedal locomotion is probably best...
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Killer ape Cooperative eye Life history Grandmother Patriarch Topics Bipedalism Skeleton Muscles Skin color Hair Thermoregulation Speech Language Intelligence...
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of making beneficial multi-group alliances. The evolutionary switch to bipedalism may have influenced the origins of music. The background is that noise...
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incubating embryo takes on some of the host's DNA or traits, such as bipedalism, quadrupedalism, possessing the mandibles of a Predator, and other structural...
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the pubic area for emitting body odor, which may be related to human bipedalism. Anatomically, the boundaries of the axilla are: The lower posterior boundary...
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that was bipedal and upright, akin to that of humans (and other hominins); this combination supports the view of human evolution that bipedalism preceded...
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both hanging in trees (suspensory behavior) and walking on two legs (bipedalism)—whereas, among present-day great apes, humans are better adapted for...
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genus Homo. They are great apes characterized by their hairlessness, bipedalism, and high intelligence. Humans have large brains, enabling more advanced...
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orangutans), human anatomy suggests that brachiation may be an exaptation to bipedalism, and healthy modern humans are still capable of brachiating. Some children's...
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Clarisse, N. D. (2022). "Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad". Nature. 609 (7925): 94–100. Bibcode:2022Natur.609...94D. doi:10...
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volume alone for savanna mammals, evolved no body hair after evolving bipedalism, which he said reduced the amount of body area exposed to the sun by 40%...
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