Sentences with phrase «from upright walking»

Our big - brained babies are difficult to deliver at birth, our backs ache from upright walking, and our long lives predispose us to cancer and other diseases.

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

And it also turns upright walking humans from being a part of what they call religion.

Gross motor development of the healthy child progresses from the horizontal position — lying where he or she is placed on the front or on the back — to the upright standing position and to walking.

It was obvious from the beginning that the most important issue to represent in the Lucy sculpture was locomotion, including upright walking as well as the issue of whether she climbed trees.

Likely human relatives predating, Ardi — Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugensis, and Ardipithecus kadabba — are known only from fragmentary remains; all probably walked upright.

From the shape of one nearly complete foot bone, the discoverers conclude that their specimen walked upright, a hallmark of all hominids.

What else distinguishes us from the apes besides walking fully upright?

The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

She decided it definitively because it's absolutely clear from her pelvis and other features that she walked upright on two legs just like we do and yet her brain is no larger than a chimpanzee's brain.

And then at the same time, when they were looking at the pelvis, and this caused a big stir at the meeting, so there's been this idea that Lucy's species, you know, the changes that you get in the pelvis from the last common ancestor of humans and chimps were to, sort of, make us good at upright walking; and then further changes to the pelvis that you see in the evolution of our genus which will accommodate babies with larger brains.

The hypothesis suggests that everything from walking upright to our lack of hair, from holding our breath to eating shellfish could be because an aquatic phase in our ancestry.

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.

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

Then release your grip, walk your hands away from your feet, and push your torso back to upright with an inhale.

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

He has real bite here, playing a tough pooch who must break free from his habit of distrusting others, especially he who walks upright.

In the dusk of a summer afternoon he would walk down the center of the street carrying a stalk of sugar cane or a bottle of buttermilk given to him by Mr. J W for his mama and he would caper as if the street was a rope he was balancing on — he was always teaching himself how to stay upright, keep from falling — and he didn't want to tell his mother that the good things he brought her were gifts from somebody else.

«And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new Kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God.

The game covers the Mushroom Men civilization in its infancy and goes through the whole evolutionary process from learning to walk upright, to waging war on other tribes.

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