Australopithecines could not run bipedally
- From: Andrew Nowicki <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:06:41 +0200
According to a new article published in the Nov. 18
issue of the journal Nature Australopithecines
could not run bipedally:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/041117_running_humans.html
This fact means that the idea of Australopithecine
hunters chasing prey animals across savanna is not
plausible. It also raises a question: Why were they
bipedal? Apparently bipedal walking gave them
advantages described in another thread:
Final Solution of the Aquatic Question.
This article also suggests that bipedal running,
rather than tool making separated the genus Homo from
other species. This means that the Savanna Theory
describes the origins of the genus Homo, rather than
the origins of the first bipedal hominids.
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