Ian Tattersall offers yet another myth about human bipedalism, in the sense of a tale that sounds plausible to the teller.
Tag: bipedalism
The croc that walked like a man?
At Eurekalert: “It shocked us to learn that the trackways represent bipedal animals 3-4 meters long,” said team leader Professor Kyung Soo Kim, Chinju National University of Education.
The Scientist: Exploding stars probably did not cause bipedalism
No? Does such a perfect pop culture anthropology theory even have a right not to be true? Let alone be called by a rival anthropologist “bizarre” and “weird,” as in the article at The Scientist?
The human back is, we are told, an evolutionary disaster
But the real villain is hands and opposable thumbs, right? They’re part and parcel of all the bad stuff humans do. The back pain is incidental.
Knuckle study might shed light on whether ancient humans walked or swung from trees
They might be onto something. After all, they are looking at a restricted type of evidence that may be abundant enough to enable a reasonable decision about some fossils. A far cry from the hype we so often hear.
Paleontologist: Humans walked on two legs from the beginning
Carol Ward: It seems to be a behavior that was present in some of the earliest members of our branch of the family tree. It represented what was really the initial major adaptive change from any apelike creature that came before us.
Researchers: Supernova prompted humans to walk upright
Funny, if bipedalism originated in a global catastrophe, that it never occurred to any other primate to resolve the problem by becoming fully bipedal. But keep thinking. Resist groupthink.
Evolutionary biologists still puzzled over human breasts
How about this: Breasts and bipedalism both evolved to create a market for theories.