Evolution
Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism
For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted
Jeremy DeSilva is a paleoanthropologist at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the evolution of bipedalism. He is author of First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (HarperCollins, 2021). Credit: Nick Higgins
For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted
Neandertals and other extinct hominin species had big brains, too. It’s not a sign of intelligence
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