Sentences with phrase «of bipedalism»

A. ramidus apparently climbed trees but also walked upright some 4.4 million years ago — more than half a million years before the long - accepted origin of bipedalism.

These finds include such famous East African fossils as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), which strengthened the importance of bipedalism in human evolution and proved an essential milestone on our way to modern Homo sapiens.

Because the H. naledi fossils have not yet been dated, researchers don't know how this form of bipedalism fits into our family tree.

He has studied the evolution of bipedalism and edited From Biped to Strider (Springer, 2004), a well - respected textbook.

Other research during this dinosaur renaissance, looking at the inflexibility of its hand and wrist, revealed that Iguanodon spent most of its time with four limbs on the ground, but was capable of some bipedalism.

Some scientists contend the scans were at too low a resolution to push back the first appearance of bipedalism 2 million years.

Until now the oldest evidence of bipedalism was the fossil footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania, which are believed to have been left 3.6 million years ago by A. afarensis.

Paleoanthropologist Susannah Thorpe of the University of Birmingham, England, spotted apes clambering on trees a total of 2,811 times, including numerous instances of bipedalism.

The researchers «present a plausible and elegant argument in favor of the emergence of bipedalism in an arboreal rather than terrestrial context,» according to an accompanying commentary by researchers Paul O'Higgins and Sarah Elton, both of the Hull York Medical School in England.

They are considered the earliest example of bipedalism among hominins.

«This species has a unique combination of traits below the neck, and that adds another type of bipedalism to our record of human evolution,» Harcourt - Smith said.

Considerable debate continues over when and in what context a modern human — like form of bipedalism evolved, because of a fragmentary record and disagreements over the functional interpretations of existing fossils and footprints.

In the «naked love theory», as I call it, this hairlessness is ultimately the result of bipedalism or the ability to walk on two feet.

For the origins of bipedalism, for example, Owen Lovejoy is centre - stage, though many of the objections raised to his theory are given an airing.

These feet provide insights into the evolution of bipedalism and, together with the rest of the skeleton, have implications for hominin dispersal events into Asia.

A new species of Australopithecus, the ancestor of Homo, pushes back the origins of bipedalism to some four million years ago

But these don't have much to say about the origins of bipedalism, more than 6m years before — they just demonstrate the behavioural flexibility of later hominins.

The SdP consists of several platforms dedicated to the analysis of primate's motion (the origin of bipedalism), to cognition and behaviour, to comparative psychology, as well as in a biomedical platform (surgery, radiology, echography, biological analyses, animal housing).