The bonobo brain (top) is about the same size as brains of
the bipedal apes, such as the australopithecines.
The orangutan finding, he says, suggests these fossils may indeed represent
bipedal apes.
A panel of scientists challenges what it is to be distinctly human and retraces the evolutionary steps that
bipedal apes made to attain human traits
Not exact matches
Bipedal on the ground but efficient at moving through trees, Ardi suggests the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees was an
ape with monkeylike traits.
Clues from other parts of its body — long and curved fingers, and a more
ape - like shoulder joint — paint a picture of a creature that was undoubtedly
bipedal but also a tree climber.
It covers a huge area of intellectual ground, from evolutionary conundrums — such as our relationship to the great
apes, why we are hairless and
bipedal — to matters as arcane as the human aura.
This showed researchers that
bipedal walking was a key trait of humans and our ancestors, the group called hominins — but not of living
apes and their ancestors.
As a consequence, the deepest part of a footprint often occurs beneath the first and second metatarsal heads, that along with a deep hallucal impression corresponds to the peak pressures at toe - off... This contrasts with the less stereotypical pattern of footfall observed in African
apes during quadrupedal and
bipedal locomotion.
The oldest known hominid; it shares many features with both
apes and humans but is thought to be
bipedal.
Are the
apes — the bipedal, horseback - riding Planet Of The Apes apes —
apes — the
bipedal, horseback - riding Planet Of The
Apes apes —
Apes apes —
apes — us?