How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...
The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would ...
But in a small, lightly built bipedal predator leaping into the air ... it was possible to stay airborne for short distances. The evolution of feathers with an asymmetrical shape, like those ...
Now, a paper published in the American Journal of Primatology provides new insights into how and when bipedal locomotion appeared during human evolution. Professor Josep M. Potau, from the Human ...
In his book, The Fossil Trail; How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, Dr. Tattersall favors the explanation that upright bipedalism "was ...
Peter Fernandez said that they would like to conduct similar analyses on the remaining bones of the forefoot, in order to fully characterise the changes involved in the evolution of bipedal walking.