Sentences with phrase «upright walking»

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

Was there a way to represent both climbing and upright walking in the same pose?

They also decrease the efficiency of upright walking because of the birth canal size spreading the hips and promoting a return to the chimpanzeelike waddle.

A. afarensis and A. africanus displayed pelvic arrangements for upright walking, but not for Ardi's apelike climbing power.

Researchers have long wondered if other upright walking species shared the Rift Valley of Africa with Lucy, particularly after they discovered that several types of hominins were alive at the same time after A. afarensis disappeared 3 million years ago.

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.

The bone also shows that A. afarensis had abandoned the flexible midfoot that apes use to grasp tree branches, in favor of an arch that makes upright walking more efficient.

Human infants are born with a brain that is only a quarter of its adult volume (compared to 50 % for infant chimpanzees and gorillas) due to the constraints of a birth canal that has been modified to accommodate upright walking.

Our species is prone to back pain, for example, because our ancestors» imperfect transition to upright walking essentially took a spine similar to that of our nearest living relatives, knuckle - walking chimpanzees, and forced it vertical with piecemeal adaptations.

This 4.4 - million - year - old fossil female was bipedal but lived in woodlands, debunking the widely accepted hypothesis that we evolved upright walking on the grassy savanna.

A second look a the 4.4 - million - year - old primate that has sparked debate about upright walking and what it means to be in the human tribe

One of the great advantages of our more rigid foot is that it works much better as a lever during upright walking and running (as it also does in monkeys).

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.

A self - assembling robot might default to a standard configuration — the four - legged walker, perhaps — when embarking on a rescue mission, then shift into caterpillar or sidewinder mode if confronted with a stretch of debris that makes upright walking impossible.

The famous footprint trails left at Laetoli — clear evidence of fully upright walking — are 3.6 million years old.

Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus Erectus Pithecanthropus Mojokertensis Pithecanthropus Soloensis Meganthropus Palaeojavanicus Homo Hobbit Pithecanthropus In 1890 Eugene Dubois found Pithecanthropus fossil species in the village Sandpipers (Structural) East Java near Solo river basin, by giving the name Pithecanthropus erectus meaning upright walking ape - man.

Lightweight, upright walking tanks can be called down when they are ready.

If there's any independent Devs on here reading these comments, please take note, we want a Syd Barrett influenced game that features upright walking rhinos, thanks

(In case you don't know, a wobbler is a child stuck in the grey space, torn between toddler and upright walking stages.)

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.

A better design for upright walking and running, DeSilva said, would be a foot and ankle like an ostrich.

Tipsy millennials locking arms to keep each other upright walked the cart path up the 18th while kids in whatever we're calling the next generation did barrel rolls down the hill up above.

According to the earlier theory, hairlessness would have followed quickly on the heels of upright walking, probably more than 2 million years ago.

Because it had substantially modified the other four toes for upright walking, even while retaining its grasping big toe, the Ardipithecus foot was an odd mosaic that worked for both upright walking and climbing in trees.

Its occurrence among other fossils indicative of a grassland environment prompted speculation that the open grasslands of Africa were exploited by early hominids and were therefore somehow integrally involved with the origins of upright walking.

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.

As our bodies had to adapt to upright walking and bigger brains, they had to balance both of those changes with the limitations of the birth canal — and allowing enough mothers and babies to survive that the big - brained, upright walking species didn't go extinct.

We owe our status to the evolution of our large and complex brains, upright walking, high fertility, and long lifespans.

In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel about Mr. Chartwell, a upright walking, talking black dog, an eminent statesman at the end of his career, and the vulnerable young woman.