Upright apes - A.Filler
- From: Marc Verhaegen <m_verhaegen@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:13:55 +0100
Hominiform Progression
<http://www.uprightevolution.com>
In the Video:
* Dramatic video on the evolution of movement in the hominiforms - apes and
humans.
* A baby siamang ape teaches himself to walk bipedally like his parents and
humans show off their arm swinging.
* Chimp and Gorilla knuckle walking and orangutan four limbed clmbing as
well as the future of human movement are also explored.
* How apes and humans carry their infants and children as they move.
A 25 minute video produced and directed
by Aaron G. Filler, MD, PhD,
evolutionary biologist and author of
"The Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species <index.html> "
Visit the Upright Ape Media Page
<http://www.uprightape.net/AGF-Media_Evolution.html>
Links to Related Blogs and Media
<http://www.uprightape.net/Media_and_Blogs.html>
* See the 1 minute trailer
<http://www.uprightape.net/Hominiform_Progression.html#Anchor-Hominiform-358
82>
* Low Res: See it NOW on Google Video
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5785263312984715302> or in three
segments on You Tube <http://www.youtube.com/theuprightape>
* Medium Res: Download from iTunes as a Podcast
* High Res: See Download Instructions below <#Anchor-High-49575>
High Res Download options:
* 1 - Download the 260 MB file in m4v format from this websiteVisit the Upright Ape home page <http://www.uprightape.net/index.html>
* 2 - Download/View in compressed form from Vuze* Mac users: The file opens in iTunes or Quicktime. Use Safari 3.0 or updated* (this takes a while even with fast broadband so be patient).
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<http://www.uprightape.net/Hominiform_Progression_HR.m4v>
<http://www.vuze.com/details/PPAIWJ4YUW6JW2T4BUGFGOF6PBT2LJU4.html> high res
video site
Dear Mr. Verhaegen,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
* Media Contact:
* Aaron Filler, MD, PhD
* Jodean Petersen:
* 310 314-6410
* 2716 Ocean Park Blvd., #3082
* Santa Monica, CA 90405
* afiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Infant Siamang Apes Walk Like Humans :
Video and Related Data Revolutionizes Human Evolution
Los Angeles, California The American Association of Physical Anthropology,
on Decemer 6th, accepted for podium presentation at its April 2008 meeting a
report summarizing a growing mass of new data that turns human evolution
studies upside down by supporting an upright bipedal common ancestor for
apes and humans. Prominent Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist Aaron
Filler, MD, PhD is reporting this Humanian Model
<http://www.uprightape.net/Humanian_Model.html> and has posted a remarkable
new category of scientific evidence on-line. In a 25 minute video titled
³Hominiform Progression
<http://www.uprightape.net/Hominiform_Progression.html> ² now running in low
res on Google Video
<http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5785263312984715302&hl=e
n> and You Tube <http://www.youtube.com/user/theuprightape> (in three
sections), in medium res as a Podcast on iTunes and high res on Vuze
<http://www.vuze.com/details/PPAIWJ4YUW6JW2T4BUGFGOF6PBT2LJU4.html> , Filler
presents a revolutionary direct video view into the evolution of movement
among the hominiforms: the apes and humans. Most remarkable is video
evidence that siamang ape babies naturally learn to walk bipedally as their
fundamental and innate means of movement. This provides new evidence that
the infants of a shared common ancestor of humans and apes also learned to
walk bipedally as their normal means of movement.
Following a controversial and widely reported technical paper published
October 10th in the leading scientific journal PLOS ONE
<http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0001019> , and the publication of ³The
Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species <http://www.uprightape.net> ² in
July, the new video dramatically portrays evidence of an upright bipedal
ancestor for both the apes and humans. ³Taken together with new information
from the fossil record and from genetics, this is powerful evidence that the
upright bipedal body form of humans evolved before the knuckle-walkers. It
promises to push back the date of the first human to 21 million years ago²
says Filler, a medical director at the Institute for Spinal Disorders at
Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
In the video, Filler shows the details of knuckle walking in chimpanzees and
gorillas, the graceful ³quadrumanual² climbing of orangutans and the
dramatic bipedalism of the siamang apes. These are contrasted with footage
of human arm swinging and movement technology. The video also captures the
various ways in which hominiform mothers carry their infants and children.
³The definition of humanity can be found either in the upright bipedal
hominiforms of the early Miocene, or in the dynamically inventive modern
species we are now. The conflict between the biological and intellectual
definition of humanity is a critical modern challenge for biology and
philosophy² Filler says.
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