Sentences with phrase «human bipedalism»

Evolution, our coping strategy Presented with fragmented vegetation and greater distances between sources of food may have led to the evolution of human bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — around six million years ago.

Prosin says that as far as she knows both chimps still reside in a lab at Stony Brook, where they are the subjects of experiments to understand the evolution of human bipedalism.

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In our human - ruled world, bipedalism is so ubiquitous that we barely notice it, much less marvel at it.

Bipedalism, one of the basic markers of humans, apparently developed long before other traits, such as stone - tool making.

Losing a genetic switch that increases production of a protein called GDF6 may have created the big toe and helped shape the human foot for bipedalism, scientists propose in a paper published online January 7 in Cell.

Earlier models supporting the connection between bipedalism and heat loss examined ancient humans standing still in the sun, which the new paper's authors argue is less realistic.

Bipedalism is a quintessentially human trait that distinguishes us from other primates.

Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.

«This foot, therefore, provides some of the best evidence that there were different experiments in bipedalism going on during this time in human evolution,» says DeSilva.

Some of the these essentially human features include hairlessness, bipedalism, subcutaneous fat, voluntary control of breathing, and a descended larynx, which makes speech possible.

A close examination of 3.6 million year old hominin footprints discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human - like bipedalism substantially earlier than previously thought.