Origins of Bipedalism

ABSTRACT This article aimed to review various theories of bipedalism and provide a holistic answer to human evolution. There have been two questions regarding bipedalism: i) why were the earliest hominins partially bipedal?, and ii) why did hominins become increasingly bipedal over the time and repl...

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Main Author: Kwang Hyun Ko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2015-12-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132015000600929&lng=en&tlng=en