Comment on "Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches"

D. R. Begun; B. G. Richmond; D. S. Strait

doi:10.1126/science.1146446

Comment on "Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches"

D. R. Begun
, B. G. Richmond
, D. S. Strait

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Abstract

Thorpe et al. (Reports, 1 June 2007, p. 1328) concluded that human bipedalism evolved from a type of bipedal posture they observed in extant orangutans with seemingly human-like extended knees. However, humans share knuckle-walking characters with African apes that are absent in orangutans. These are most parsimoniously explained by positing a knuckle-walking precursor to human bipedalism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1066d
Journal	Science
Volume	318
Issue number	5853
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146446
State	Published - Nov 16 2007

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