Sentences with phrase «evolved upright walking»

Not exact matches

Science now knows that we evolved from chimps, there is a fossil record showing when we began walking upright (Lucy).

An evolutionary dilemma is presented by our having a head large enough to contain highly evolved brains and a pelvis designed for walking upright.

An alternative is that the prints belong to an ape, unrelated to hominins, that also evolved to walk upright at least some of the time.

Wrangham aimed to fill a gap in the story of how early hominins like Australopithecus — essentially, apes that walked upright — evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

If our last common ancestor with the chimpanzee had not retained such an unspecialized foot, perhaps upright walking might never have evolved in the first place.

Other fossilized trackways have provided valuable insight about how our lineage evolved to walk upright, but the oldest currently accepted hominin trackway, at Laetoli in Tanzania, is 3.6 million years old.

They also present evidence for similar differences between the sexes in Australopithecines (early relatives of humans), suggesting that women long ago evolved such scaffolding to compensate for walking upright while supporting their swelling wombs.

«Ardi evolved a solution to an upright stance, with powerful hips for climbing that could fully extend while walking, that we don't see in apes or humans today,» says Pontzer, who is also affiliated with CUNY's Hunter College.

Ever since scientists realized that humans evolved from a succession of primate ancestors, the public imagination has been focused on the inflection point when those ancestors switched from ape - like shuffling to walking upright as we do today.

There, millions of years ago, animal species evolved to walk upright on two legs.

We departed from the rest of the animal kingdom when we evolved to walk upright on two legs.

As humans evolved and began walking upright on two legs, their glutes developed.