SocraticGadfly: Bipedalism started much earlier in human ancestors

March 21, 2008

Bipedalism started much earlier in human ancestors

Human ancestors were walking upright as early as 6 million years ago, according to new analysis of a fossil thigh bone.

The analysis will probably provoke new analysis of the climate in Kenya of that date, where the fossil was found, as to possible causes to drive and promote the evolution of bipedalism.

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