Fossil ape hints at how walking on two feet evolved
Abstract
Approximately 11.6-million-year-old fossils reveal an ape with arms suited to hanging in trees but human-like legs, suggesting a form of locomotion that might push back the timeline for when walking on two feet evolved.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1038/d41586-019-03347-0
- Bibcode:
- 2019Natur.575..445K