Sentences with phrase «upright walking essentially»

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.

Not exact matches

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.
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